TY - BOOK ID - 77938549 TI - Introduction to the study of language: a critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages AU - Delbrück, Berthold AU - Koerner, Konrad PY - 1989 SN - 1283314584 9786613314581 9027281572 9789027281579 9027208719 9027208794 9789027208781 9789027208712 9027208719 9789027208798 9027208794 9027208786 9789027208781 9786613314635 1283314630 9027281629 9789027281623 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Domesticated animals -- History. KW - Indo-European languages. KW - Indo-Europeans. KW - Plants, Cultivated -- History. KW - Anthropology KW - Social Sciences KW - Manners & Customs KW - Indo-European languages KW - Comparative linguistics. KW - Linguistics KW - Historical linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative. KW - History KW - Domestic animals KW - Plants, Cultivated KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77938549 AB - New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of domesticated animals and cultivated plants in the ancient world, tracing their diffusion from one culture to another. Hehn abandoned his contemporaries'often idealized and nationalistic image of the ancient Indo-Europeans, seeking instead to reconstruct early Indo-European society in agreement wi ER -