Table of Contents

Introduction Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paulo Ramat, University of Pavia 1. The Indo-Europeans: origins and culture Enrico Campanile (deceased) 2. Proto-Indo-European: comparison and reconstruction Calvert Watkins, Harvard University 3. The Indo-European Linguistic Family: genetic and typological perspectives Bernard Comrie, University of Southern California (Los Angeles) 4. Sanskrit Romano Lazzeroni, Italy 5. The Iranian Languages Nicholas Sims-Williams, University of Cambridge 6. Tocharian Werner Winter, University of Kiel 7. The Anatolian Languages Silvia Luraghi 8. Armenian Roberto Ajello, University of Pisa 9. Greek Henry M Hoenigswald, University of Pennsylvania 10. Latin Edoardo Vineis, University of Bologna 11. The Italic Languages Domenico Silvestri 12. The Celtic Languages Patrick-Sims Williams, University of Aberystwyth 13. The Germanic Languages Paolo Ramat, University of Pavia 14. Slavic Henning Andersen 15. The Baltic Languages William R Schmalstieg, Pennsylvania State University 16. Albanian Shaban Demiraj, Albania

About the Author

Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paolo Ramat both teach linguistics at the University of Pavia, Italy.