Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian

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List of abbreviations



1 Introduction

?1.1?Preliminaries: historical linguistics and the study of human prehistory

?1.2?Aim of the monograph

?1.3?State of the art: the position of Indo-Iranian within the Indo-European language family

?1.4?Research questions



2 Theory and methodology

?2.1?Introduction

?2.2?Phylogenetic subgrouping

?2.3?Dialectal subgrouping

?2.4?Hybrid models

?2.5?Linguistic palaeontology



3 Lexical isoglosses shared by Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic

?3.1?Introduction

?3.2?Isoglosses: plausible shared innovations

?3.3?Isoglosses: possible shared innovations

?3.4?Uncertain isoglosses

?3.5?Rejected isoglosses



4 Analysis of the Indo-Slavic isogloss corpus

?4.1?Introduction

?4.2?Attestation across Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Baltic, Slavic

?4.3?Typological classification of isoglosses

?4.4?Semantic clusters in the isogloss corpus

?4.5?Non-exclusive isoglosses

?4.6?Indo-Slavic? Innovations, archaisms, and quantity of isoglosses

?4.7?Indo-Slavic and alternative scenarios



5 The archaeology and genetics of Indo-Iranian prehistory

?5.1?Introduction

?5.2?The Indo-European homeland question

?5.3?The Sintashta culture as an archaeological context for Proto-Indo-Iranian

?5.4?The Abashevo culture as an archaeological context for Pre-Proto-Indo-Iranian

?5.5?From Yamnaya to Abashevo and Sintashta

?5.6?Integration with linguistic evidence

?5.7?Limitations and outlook



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