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Heijden, Vincent van der (2018)

The shared lexicon of Baltic, Slavic and Germanic

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

In this thesis, the nature of the shared vocabulary between Baltic, Slavic and Germanic has been researched. 294 lexical items that have been suggested in the past to be part of this shared lexicon have been (re-)examined through etymological research. The shared lexicon has been placed into the context of the prehistory of the Baltic, Slavic and Germanic language families. It is argued that most of the shared lexicon is the result of an Indo-European substrate that itself contained a pre-Indo-European (neolithic) substrate and that this donor language was spoken by inhabitants of the Corded Ware culture.

indo-european

germanic

baltic

slavic

historical linguistics

Author

Heijden, Vincent van der

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

Supervisors

Lubotsky, Alexander

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en