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Indo-Aryan and the linguistic history and prehistory of North India
Cover -- Title Pages -- Table of Contents -- Introductory -- Language abbreviations -- Notes on transcriptions and translations -- Grammatical abbreviations and phonetic symbols -- Abbreviations of ancient and new works, authors, texts andwebsites -- Acknowledgements -- Part I North India and the arrival of Indo-Aryan -- Chapter 1 An Indo-Aryan history -- 1.1 The scope of the book -- 1.1.1 The argument structure and sequence of topics in the book -- 1.1.2 Summary of the historical linguistic developments -- 1.1.3 On Outer and Inner Languages -- 1.1.4 Some common Outer Language features
1.2 From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Indo-Iranian -- 1.2.1 Subdivision I: The linguistic development -- 1.2.1.1 Further objections to the previous historical models -- 1.2.1.2 Loss of aspiration in mediae in Chittagongian -- 1.2.2 A timeline for development of stridents -- 1.2.2.1 PIA-inherited voiced affricates in MIA and NIA -- 1.2.2.2 Bartholomae's law -- 1.2.2.3 Additional examples for etymologically unjustified voicing andaspiration -- 1.2.3 Multiple affricate orders in Gāndhārı̄, Dardic and West Pahār.ı̄ -- Chapter 2 A Kartvelian substrate in northwestern South Asia
2.1 Affricate and sibilant subsystems -- 2.2 Kartvelian vestiges -- 2.2.1 Subdivision II: The historical-geographic development -- Chapter 3 Traces of a pre-Indo-European substrate in Indo-Aryan -- 3.1 Germanic and Pelasgian? -- 3.2 A Mediterrannean substrate? -- 3.3 Two onomatopoeic(?) roots *geu-, *keu- and *leup-, leubh -- 3.4 Pre-Greek and Indo-Aryan: more potential parallels -- 3.5 Indo-Aryan words with other cognates not deriving from PIE -- 3.6 Proto-Indo-Iranian and its descendants in contact with Finno-Ugric -- 3.7 Ancient contacts with Tocharian?
Chapter 4 Fates of the Proto-Indo-European gutturals -- 4.1 The historical background -- 4.1.1 Various aspects of satemization -- 4.2 Reflexes of PIE palato- and (labio-)velar single consonants -- 4.2.1 Dardic -- 4.2.2 West Pahār.ı̄ -- 4.2.3 Nuristani, Dardic, West Pahār.ı̄ (and Iranian) -- 4.2.4 Deaffrication -- 4.3 Reflexes of PIE palato- and (labio-)velar sibilant-stop clusters -- 4.3.1 Dardic -- 4.3.2 West Pahār.ı̄ -- 4.3.3 Non-satemized and satemized doublets -- 4.3.4 Additional non-satemized examples -- 4.3.5 Examples for linkage words -- 4.3.6 Indo-Iranian satemizations
4.3.7 Dentalized affricates in Khowar and Kalasha -- 4.3.8 Non-dentalized reflexes of palato-velars? -- 4.3.9 Prehistoric dentalized affricates in East Iranian languages -- 4.3.10 Dentalized affricates in Balti and Bunān (Northwestern Tibetan) -- 4.3.11 Historic dentalization of languages with one palatal affricates order -- Chapter 5 On aspiration in Indo-Iranian -- 5.0.1 Loss of aspiration and 'spontaneous' aspiration: lenition and fortition -- 5.0.2 Sanskrit aspiration alternations -- Chapter 6 Consonant cluster assimilations and simplifications -- 6.1 Inherited consonant clusters
Chapter 7 Segmental and suprasegmental processes