Darwin meets Waddington Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2018) ISBN: 978-0-691-15767-2
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.010
Abstract: R682 Current Biology 28, R679–R694, June 18, 2018 © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. Silva from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Jamshid Tehrani from Durham University, UK, have recently shown that, among dozens of folk… read more here.
Keywords: heredity; university; metallurgy; biology ... See more keywords
Ancient Genomes Reveal Yamnaya-Related Ancestry and a Potential Source of Indo-European Speakers in Iron Age Tianshan
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.044
Abstract: Recent studies of early Bronze Age human genomes revealed a massive population expansion by individuals-related to the Yamnaya culture, from the Pontic Caspian steppe into Western and Eastern Eurasia, likely accompanied by the spread of… read more here.
Keywords: iron age; age; ancient; ancestry ... See more keywords
Statistical evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian hypothesis
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DOI: 10.1075/dia.19014.ble
Abstract: Based on a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, and regular sound correspondences between this Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European as standardly reconstructed, Blevins (2018) argues that Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European have a common ancestor that pre-dates the two proto-languages.… read more here.
Keywords: indo european; statistical evidence; proto; proto basque ... See more keywords
Areal features of Hittite conditionals: Consequences for the reconstruction of Indo-European
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DOI: 10.1075/dia.34.2.04zor
Abstract: Hittite conditionals exhibit some morphosyntactic peculiarities which are not yet fully understood, such as the conditional conjunction takku derived from a demonstrative plus “and”, some unexpected alternations from past to present and the irrealis particle… read more here.
Keywords: hittite conditionals; features hittite; consequences reconstruction; conditionals consequences ... See more keywords
How diverse is child language acquisition research?
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237211066405
Abstract: A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world’s 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at an alarming rate, and… read more here.
Keywords: language; language acquisition; indo european; research ... See more keywords
Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275744
Abstract: Questions on the timing and the center of the Indo-European language dispersal are central to debates on the formation of the European and Asian linguistic landscapes and are deeply intertwined with questions on the archaeology… read more here.
Keywords: european languages; core indo; cereal; language ... See more keywords
The development of the Proto-Indo-European instrumental suffix in Germanic
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DOI: 10.1515/if-2017-0005
Abstract: Abstract It has long been acknowledged that Proto-Germanic *-dl- developed into *-ll- by a process of regular assimilation. Since long stops are regularly simplified in heavy and unstressed syllables in Proto-Germanic, some formations that superficially… read more here.
Keywords: european instrumental; germanic; development proto; proto indo ... See more keywords
Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language
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DOI: 10.1515/if-2017-0007
Abstract: Abstract The “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages is most likely inherited from Proto-Indo-European (Hettrich 1990). Two recent proposals (Danesi 2013; Luraghi 2016), however, claim that the construction contains no agent at all.… read more here.
Keywords: reconstructed language; construction; historical languages; languages reconstructed ... See more keywords
Indo-European cladistic nomenclature
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DOI: 10.1515/if-2019-0008
Abstract: Abstract The study examines the terminology currently in use for the higher-level subgroups of the Indo-European family tree. Based on the observation that the terminology is heterogeneous and confusing, the study discusses the central terms,… read more here.
Keywords: indo european; european cladistic; cladistic nomenclature;
Indo-European syntax in disguise
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DOI: 10.1515/if-2019-0011
Abstract: Abstract The Greek noun suffix -ευς is analyzed as a hypostatic u-stem formation based on an instrumental in *-eh₁- with close cognates in Lithuanian -ius and Armenian -oyt‘ < *-eh1u-ti-. Thus the type reflects the… read more here.
Keywords: syntax; indo european; syntax disguise; european syntax ... See more keywords