Greco-Armenian The persistence of a myth

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F18%3A10389710" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/18:10389710 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2018-0009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2018-0009</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/if-2018-0009" target="_blank" >10.1515/if-2018-0009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Greco-Armenian The persistence of a myth

Original language description

It has been generally held since the beginning of the 20th century that Armenian is more closely related to Greek than to any other Indo-European branch. A more recent minority opinion posits an especially close relationship between Greek and Armenian, even going so far as to assume a period of Greco-Armenian unity. Following upon recent publications, above all Clackson 1994, this paper argues that the available evidence does not at all support this stronger hypothesis. In contrast to the lexical innovations common to Greek and Armenian, the phonological isoglosses shared by the two languages are extremely few and of an easily repeatable nature. The morphological features claimed as shared innovations may likewise represent independent developments and/or have parallels in other Indo-European branches, whereas other features of verbal morphology rather appear to connect Armenian with Indo-Iranian or Balto-Slavic. These considerations suggest that pre-Armenian belonged to a dialect continuum encompassing the ancestors of Greek, Phrygian, and Indo-Iranian for some time after the breakup of Proto-Indo-European, but made up a distinct speech community already by the late 3rd millennium BC.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-19400S" target="_blank" >GA17-19400S: Balbín's Diva Montis Sancti (1665) and its Vernacular Versions as a Type of Baroque Translations</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Indogermanischen Forschungen

ISSN

0019-7262

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

123

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

247-271

UT code for WoS article

000445708600009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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