TY - BOOK AU - Rovai,Francesco AU - Bianconi,Michele AU - Capano,Marta AU - Romagno,Domenica TI - Variation, Contact, and Reconstruction in the Ancient Indo-European Languages: Between Linguistics and Philology T2 - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics SN - 9789004508873 AV - P901 U1 - 417/.7 23/eng/20220211 PY - 2022/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Extinct languages KW - Congresses KW - Indo-European languages KW - Language variation KW - Languages in contact KW - Reconstruction (Linguistics) KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - lcgft N1 - International conference proceedings; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "The collected papers in this book address an array of important issues in the field of Historical Linguistics and, specifically, Indo-European Linguistics, including different theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language organization and change, building on the strict relationship between Linguistics and Philology. The papers provide significant contributions to the understanding of aspects of variation, contact and reconstruction, reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from a large variety of languages. The themes that emerge from the papers center around two main research lines: 1. the relationship between language facts and historical accidents; 2. the relationship between grammatical categories and conceptual representations. The book is of interest for any reader seeking to gain insight into the nature of language organization and change"-- UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004508873 ER -