Indo-European Linguistics & Language Family

These are the latest changes made to our reference book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition, in Versions 4.0 to 4.15:

Version 4.0 (1 Sep 2009) – Full revision of A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, pre-version 4.
Version 4.1 (1 Oct 2009) – Revision of Appendix I (English-Indo-European and English-Indo-European dictionaries) and III (Etymological lexicon).
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These are the latest changes made to our reference book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European in Versions 3.40 to 3.45:

Version 3.40 – Translation of proper names without a known Indo-European etymology into a purer Indo-European form; hence the terms France, French (also Frank), not left as MIE loan words Frankiā and Frankiskós, but transcribed from [...]

These are the latest changes made to our reference book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European in Version 3.35:
- In page 42, Schleicher’s Fable in Proto-Indo-European, in IE II, IE III (equivalent to the Modern Indo-European version) and other proto-languages: all versions have been corrected, but specially the Proto-Italic one, following some critics about the phonetic [...]

Our book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European is already for sale at Amazon.com (visit Amazon’s book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European).
These are the latest changes made in version 3.34:
- Latin’s Penultimate rule (page 19) is formulated incompletely: the tone falls on the penultimate syllable if this is long, and on the antepenultimate if it [...]

Due to the need of other, non-European online shops, we had to prepare other printing formats for the Print-on-Demand services that Amazon.com and Lulu.com offered.
Before we printed the whole PDF files again we decided to correct some known mistakes, namely:
- The Personal Pronouns section (version 3.32) – we’ve added the tonic variants.
- The old proto-language [...]

After some months without a reason to use this website, we’ve eventually placed it in its own subdomain, so that all Indo-European resources released (whether from the Indo-European Language Association or not) might be posted.
Let’s see what’s new about the Proto-Indo-European language reconstruction and revival:

The book A Grammar of Modern Indo-European has begun the new [...]

In these minor revisions,
a. Non-relevant notes are now footnotes, to facilitate the reading of the main sections.
b. Footnotes are left for the end of the section.
c. More internal hyperlinks are added, to facilitate a quick vocabulary reference.
Still to improve are styles (especially the footnotes) and bookmarks.
For more on this, see Modern Indo-European Grammar v.2.x.
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It includes minor revisions of Version 1.0, including

Change from original .doc document into Open Document .odt (and consequently a drastic decrease in file size
Page numbers are also reformed, as Microsoft Word appear to crash with more than 377 pages (?)
The PDF is made with Open Office (v.2.2) and OpenSuSe, as Windows doesn’t seem to deal [...]

In this minor revision, all special Latin endings in -tas, -tatis, “-ty” in English, are modified and made “more Indo-European”, so to speak, and left as simply -ta, i.e., MIE Third or a-Declension.
Thus, for example, Uniuersitas, Uniuersitatis, “University”, is changed from older MIE Oiniwersitats (i.e. root in -t) to simply MIE Oiniwersita.
For more on this, [...]

We open this new site dedicated to the Proto-Indo-European language and its derived dialects – whether dead or alive – with a simple series of highly hypothetical historical ethno-linguistic maps, showing the supposed Indo-European language development in Eurasia since Pre-Proto-Indo-European, some 7.000 years ago.
We plan to dedicate this new site to different resources and articles [...]