The linguistic evidence

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Preface and Acknowledgments; Transcriptions and Phonetics; Maps and Charts; Introduction; The Previous Volumes and Their Reception; Classics Has Been Misunderstood

Anathema from a G.O.M.; Outline of Volume 3; Chapter 1: Historical Linguistics and the Image of Ancient Greek; Nineteenth-Century Romantic Linguistics: The Tree and the Family; Saussure and the Twentieth-Century Epigones of Nineteenth-Century Indo-European Studies; Ramification or Interlacing; Chapter 2: The Nostratic and Euroasiatic Hyper- and Super-Families; Nostratic and Euroasiatic Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of Nostratic and EuroasiaticGordon Childe and Colin Renfrew; Language and Genetics; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Afroasiatic, Egyptian and Semitic; The Origins of African Languages and the Development of Agriculture in Africa; The Origins and Spread of Afroasiatic; Conclusion; Chapter 4: The Origins of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European and Their Contacts with Other Languages; The Origins and Diffusion of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European; Loans from Other Languages into PIH; Development of an Indo-European Gender System Based on Sex; Conclusion Chapter 5: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 1, PhonologyGreek: Result of a Linguistic Shift or of Language Contact?; The Elements of the Greek Linguistic Amalgam; The Phonologies of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European; Phonological Developments from PIE to Greek; Conclusion; Chapter 6: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 2, Morphological and Syntactical Developments; Morphology; Syntax; Summary on Syntactical Changes; Conclusion; Chapter 7: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 3, Lexicon; Introduction; The Study of Lexical Borrowings