The “New Image” of Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis: a possible reconciliation of reconstructions

• Authors: Kenneth Shields
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

According to what Adrados (1992: 1) calls the “new image” of Indo-European, the proto-language originally lacked the inflectional complexities associated with traditional Brugmannian reconstruction. Such complexities were acquired only at later stages of development, including the immediately predialectal period. On the basis of this perspective, I argue in Shields (2001) that there exists an incompatibility between reconstructions proposed by Nostraticists and by those espousing the “new image” of Indo-European. However, in this brief paper, I present a possible means of reconciling the two theoretical viewpoints.

Keywords

EN

Indo-European; linguistic history; protolanguage

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 129-139

Contributors

author

Kenneth Shields

• Millersville University, PO Box 1002, 1 South George St., Millersville, PA 17551