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A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern EuropeA Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe is a 2012 collection of twelve papers that go back to an international workshop in Rakavere Estonia in 2008 This feels like something of a sequel to Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo European ed Carpelan Parpola and Koskikallio published as volume 242 in the same series Both volumes are highly recommended reading for those who want to combine historical linguistics with what we know from the archaeological record and ancient historians. A linguistic map of prehistoric northern europeback The papers divide roughly into the two groups of archaeology papers and historical linguistics ones of which I admit to not reading much of the first group because archaeology isn t my field There are three papers that are mainly archaeology Mika Lavento s Cultivation among hunter gathers in Finland Charlotte Damm s From entities to interaction replacing pots and people with networks of transmission Asko Parpola s Formation of the Indo European and Uralic language families in the light of archaeology tries to connect each branch to a material culture this is definitely one paper that linguists must read and cannot remain ignorant of. EPub A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern european Most of the papers are concerned with reconstructing protolanguages and determining the chronology of language contacts Tiit Rein Viitso s Early metallurgy in language the history of metal names in Finnic in fact deals not just with Finnic but is a good survey of metal names in other Uralic languages as well Karl Pajusalu s Formation of the Southern Finnic language area from the dialectological perspective is concerned with the phonological innovations that distinguish Estonian Livonian and Votic from the rest of Finnic The evidence of Baltic loanwords in Mordvinic by Riho Grunthal examines 36 proposed etymologies which frequently draw in the Finnic languages and Mari In Non Indo European root nouns in Germanic evidence in support of the Agricultural Substrate hypothesis Guus Kroonen suggests that a common non IE language was spread through Europe with the Neolithic introduction of farming and this substrate provides some German etymologies as well as clarifying relationships with similar Greek and Latin words Petri Kallio s paper helps to stratify Germanic loans into Finnic by proposing a Middle Proto Finnic between the conventionally reconstructed Early and Late ones and proposing that each had different phonotactics Santeri Juntila s The early contacts between Baltic and Finnic group the proposed loanwords from Baltic into Finnic account to their semantics and discounts a large number of them Willem Vermeer offers a new theory for why some Russian and Belarussian words do not display the Slavic progressive palatalization proposing a new chronology and suggesting contact with a Baltic substrate. Kindle A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern europe Ante Aikio s substantial An essay on Saami ethnolinguistic prehistory fits into both of the two categories I distinguished above as its first part deals heavily with linguistic reconstructions and its second part matches that to archaeological evidence Paperback Sewn Binding