Zsolt Simon
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Academics have long stopped speaking of "peoples" and "their" languages and cultures. Yet languages and cultures are still taken as evidence of quasi-ethnic community and "identity." Nine papers by scholars in Egyptology, general linguists, archeology, German-Romance onomastics, Hittite studies, and Turkish studies reveal the incongruities between linguistic community, ethnicity, and culture.
Von "Völkern" und "ihren" Sprachen und Kulturen redet...
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europe's linguistic landscape. Many of the preexisting languages are assumed to have been lost, as Indo-European languages, including Greek, Latin, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Armenian, dominate in much of Western Eurasia from historical times. To elucidate the linguistic encounters resulting from the Indo-Europeanization...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
This book explores multilingualism and multiscriptism in a great variety of writing cultures, offering an in-depth analysis of how diverse languages and scripts seamlessly intertwine within written artefacts. Insights into scribal practices are particularly illuminating in that respect, especially when exploring artefacts originating from multicultural communities and regions where distinct writing traditions intersect. The influence of multilingualism...