This book introduces Proto-Indo-European and explores what the language reveals about the people who spoke it. The Proto-Indo-Europeans lived somewhere in Europe or Asia between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago, and no text of their language survives. J. P. Mallory and Douglas Adams show how over the last two centuries scholars have reconstructed it from its descendant languages, the surviving examples of which comprise the world's largest language family. After a concise account of Proto-Indo-European grammar and a consideration of its discovery, they use the reconstructed language and related evidence from archaeology and natural history to examine the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy, history, and environment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Our distant ancestors had used the wheel, were settled arable farmers, kept sheep and cattle, brewed beer, got married, made weapons, and had 27 verbs for the expression of strife. The subjects to which the authors devote chapters include fauna, flora, family and kinship, clothing and textiles, food and drink, space and time, emotions, mythology, religion, and the continuing quest to discover the Proto-Indo-European homeland.Proto-Indo-European-English and English-Proto-Indo-European vocabularies and full indexes conclude the book. Written in a clear, readable style and illustrated with maps, figures, and tables, this book is on a subject of great and enduring fascination. It will appeal to students of languages, classics, and the ancient world, as well as to general readers interested in the history of language and of early human societies.

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly synchronic. The authors use it to reconceptualize grammaticalization (the process by which verbs like to have lose semantic content and gain grammatical functions, or word order moves from discourse-prominent to syntax-prominent), and lexicalization (in which idioms become fixed and complex words simplified). Basing their argument on the notions that language is made up of language-specific form-meaning pairings and that there is a gradient between lexical and grammatical constructions, Professor Traugott and Dr Trousdale suggest that language change proceeds by micro-steps that involve closely related changes in syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse functions. They illustrate their exposition with numerous English examples drawn from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, many of which they discuss in depth.
The book is organized in six chapters. The first outlines the approach and the questions to be addressed. The second reviews usage-based models of language change. The third considers the relation between grammatical constructionalization and grammaticalization. Chapters 4 and 5 focus respectively on lexical constructionalization and the role of context. The final chapter draws the authors' arguments together and outlines prospects for further research. Constructionalization and Constructional Changes propounds and demonstrates a new and productive approach to historical linguistics.
"[T]he qualitative framework presented in this monograph is without any doubt a most admirable synthesis of current historical analysis within the framework of construction grammar, and will inspire nearly any linguist interested in language change." - Peter Petré, Diachronica
"Constructionalization and Constructional Changes represents a highly inspiring contribution to studies on language change in general and to the budding filed of diachronic construction grammar in particular, in which it will definitely become a standard reference work." - Judith Huber, Functions of Language

《未名译库：古汉语音系的构拟》是作者研究汉语历史音韵学的重要著作。作者根据汉字谐声系统和古诗的押韵并结合亲属语言的材料，构拟了公元前10世纪初的上古汉语音系，并对作者所划分的上古汉语其他几个时期的音系特点作了分析，对中古汉语音系也重新进行了省视。作者的研究继承和发展了乃师雅洪托夫及其他前辈著名学者的优秀学术成果，根据对大量材料的研究尤其是对新材料的研究提出一系列新的见解，很值得我们参考借鉴。《未名译库：古汉语音系的构拟》正文后附录有作者的上古诗文韵部研究和他构拟的古汉语（上古各时期和中古）音节与诸家所构拟中上古音节的比较表。

自十九世纪以来，西域考古研究领域出土了大量文献资料，特别是已经不再使用的丰富多彩的古典语言文字（即死文字），是我们了解当时东西方社会以及丝绸之路沿线各民族、文化、宗教等领域不为史料所记载的秘史的钥匙，也是复原丝绸之路昔日辉煌而兼容并蓄的古代文化不可或缺的重要实物资料。本论文集即收录了中外学术界著名学者对这些人类语言的“化石”的最新研究成果。

本书广泛的采纳了语言接触学、语言进化学、语用学、地域语言学、文化语言学、社会语言学、民族语言学、混合语言学研究方法。在具体研究中，将系统研究和个案分析、新旧资料的统合分析、不同语言的不同变迁现象的综合分析、静态研究和动态研究等密切相结合，本书还探索出了一条语言变迁研究的方法和理论。

近代官话语音研究，ISBN：9787801847737，作者：耿振生

《汉语历史语法散论》选编了大大小小二十四篇文章，是笔者从事语言学研究的部分心得体会。从内容上划分，大致可以分为六组。第一组收录四篇文章，主要是对中古汉语整体或某些重要语法词汇现象的研究。第二组有五篇文章，是对专书专文中语法词汇问题的探讨，对象也主要是中古汉语。第三组选收的三篇文章，是对上古汉语中几种语法现象的历时或共时的阐释。第四组中六篇文章是笔者读书后的体会：一篇是奉读先师洪诚先生历史语法研究论著的心得，另五篇则是为几位学弟中古汉语语法研究专著赘述的序言。第五组只选了两篇文章，对《世说新语》一书的文化价值作了考察。第六组的四篇文章较杂，第一篇是对“浅易文言文”的解说，后三篇则是对某些词语的形成、应用以及对古代汉语教学与教材的思考。

巴克所着的《印欧语语汇比较词典》不仅是他最集中心血，也是受众面最广的著作，此书正文厚达1515页，按照语义分类，可以让读者快速获悉同源词在各种印欧语中的分布情况，提供了关于原始印欧人的环境、文化和制度的重要信息。
字典主体分为二十二个章节，分别是：1.物质世界；2.人类；3.动物；4.身体部分；5.食物和饮料；6.衣服装饰；7.住所；8.农业；9.技艺动作和制品；10.运动；11.财物；12.空间关系；13.数量；14.时间；15.感知；16.情感；17.思想；18.言语、阅读和书写；19.社会政治；20.战争；21.法律；22.宗教。每一章节内再细分为数个小章节。比如第一章物质世界就有土地、山、水、树木、日、月、风、云、烟等分类。在每一项语义词条下除了列举在各种语言中的形式外，还附有简短的语义解释和词源学讨论。

This book analyses-in terms of branching-the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents. Brigitte Bauer presents a detailed analysis of this development based on the theoretical discussion and definition of "branching" and "head." Subsequently she relates the diachronic shift to psycholinguistic evidence, arguing that the difficuly of LB complex structures as reflected in their painstaking and delayed acquisition accounts for the extensive typological shift from left to right branching that took place in Latin/French and the other Indo-European languages. The author uses data from child language acquisition studies to support her thought-provoking claim.

本书研究语言变化的社会因素，概括了三十年来现代社会语言学的研究成果，主要材料来自作者本人对美国费城语言的经典研究，书中用社会阶层、街区、民族、性别、社会网络等章节确认了高层芝动阶级的女性是语方变化带领者，提出了包括弧线原理在内的四大变化原理。全书材料丰富，分析详尽，理论精辟，各种统计方法更为研究者提供实用的研究工具，毫无疑问，此卷经曲巨著为整个语言学科展示了崭新的研究领域，是有志于探索语言真谛学者的必备之书。
本书目录
导读（沈钟伟）
原文目录
原书前言
凡例
第一部分 语言社团
第一章 达尔文悖论
1.1　语言变化的社会效应
1.2　生物学和语言学之间的平行性
1.3　前人对音变原因的看法
1.4　音变的不同类别
1.5　语言和社会之间的有限界面
1.6　变化带领者的社会位置
1.7　个人、群族和社团
第二章　费城语言变化和变异（LCV）的研究
2.1　取样的问题
2.2　费城概况
2.3　探试阶段
2.4　街区研究
2.5　电话调查
第三章　稳定的社会语言变异
3.1　研究正在进行中的变化的必要背景条件
3.2　本章所要讨论的变量
3.3　稳定的语言变异的稳定性
3.4　费城的社会语言学案例
3.5　（dh）的阶层和风格的交叉制表
3.6　年龄的交叉制表
3.7　年龄和社会阶层的交叉制表
3.8　二次回归分析
3.9　探索社会阶层标识
3.10　小结
第四章　费城元音系统
4.1　费城方言地区
4.2　费城元音系统描写的基本框架
4.3　费城元音系统的早期纪录
4.4　20世纪720年代费城元音系统
4.5　显时音变的发展
第二部分　社会附层、性别、邻居和民族
第五章　在社会经济层次中带领者的定位
5.1　基本材料
5.2　精确度和误差来源
5.3　第一回归分析：年龄相关系数
5.4　社会阶层的初计算
5.4 社会阶层的初步计算
5.5 第二回归分析：年龄和社会阶层
5.6 第三回归分析：年龄向量的再分析
5.7 清辅音前（ay）的央元音化
5.8 电话调查
5.9 社会经济指标的构成成分
5.10 概述
5.11 阶层分布的进一步观察
5.12 弧线格局和变化原因
5.13 音变是否是适应过程的一部分？
第六章 进行中变化的主观反映
6.1 对语言变化主观反映的田野研究方法
6.2 费城主观反映的测试
6.3 费城主观反映的测试
第七章 街区和民族
第八章 性别悖论
第九章 性别、年龄和社会阶层的交叉
第三部分 语言变化的带领者
第十章 社会网络
第十一章 性别悖论的解释
第十二章 带领者的描述
第四部分 传递、增长和延续
第十三章 传递
第十四章 增第
第十五章 延续
第十六章 结论
后记
参考文献
索引

《中国少数民族语言汉语借词的历史层次》是中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所与法国国家科学中心东亚语言研究所合作项目成果，收入论文7篇，约计35万字。

“欧亚历史文化文库”主要收入的是1978年以来我国内陆欧亚诸方向研究的代表性成果，同时选择了部分国际欧亚学的经典名著，涉及区内众多民族、多种文化类别的语言、文字、风俗、宗教、生产和生活方式等内容及其相互影响，在研究方法和资料构建上独显欧亚视野的优势和特色。
该套丛书的出版宗旨是：使读者能够在欧亚这一视野下系统、全面地品读历史，审视文化传统的发生、发展和变迁，认识我们的历史文化在世界文明进程中所起的作用，推动我国的民族史、宗教史、边疆史、断代史乃至中华文化传统等现代中国历史文化研究的进步。
系统出版这些成果，对于指导我们国家的发展实践和构建稳定的发展环境，有着十分重要的现实意义；同时，其研究方法与研究成果，对于我国的民族史、宗教史、边疆史、各断代史乃至中华文化传统等现代中国历史文化研究的启发和推动作用，也将意义深远。
本书是“欧亚历史文化文库”中的一种，在欧亚大陆这个广大地区使用的语言，主要属汉藏语系、阿尔泰语系（有争议）、乌拉尔语系、亚非语系（旧称闪含语系）、印欧语系、南亚语系、达罗毗荼语系等。本书对这些不同语言分别进行了简要说明；梳理了其中有文献传统的语言，并介绍了它们使用的文字和历史上形成的重要文献著作；阐释了国内外对这些语言进行研究的历史和现状，以及已经得出的重要结论和尚待进一步探讨的问题。

This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. Fifty years ago Joseph Greenberg put forward the now widely accepted classification of African languages. This book charts the progress of his subsequent work on language classification in Oceania, the Americas, and Eurasia,in which he proposed the language families Indo-Pacific, Amerind and Eurasiatic. It shows how he established and deployed three fundamental principles: that the most reliable evidence for genetic classification is the pairing of sound and meaning; that nonlinguistic evidence, such as skin colour or cultural traits, should be excluded from the analysis; and that the vocabulary and inflections of a very large number of languages should be simultaneously compared. The volume includes Joseph Greenberg's substantive contributions to the debate his work provoked and concludes with his writings on the links between genetic linguistics and human history. William Croft's introduction focuses on the substance and the development of Professor Greenberg's thought and research within the context of the discussion they stimulated. He also includes a bibliography of scholarly reactions to and developments of Joseph Greenberg's work and a comprehensive bibliography of his publications in books and journals.

《西域历史语言研究集刊》(第一辑)目录
中国人民大学国学院西域历史语言研究所 沈卫荣主编
科学出版社，2007年
吐鲁番新出一组北凉文书的初步研究（孟宪实）
新出吐鲁番文书所见唐龙朔年间哥逻禄部落破散问题（荣新江）
Sogdian Fragments Discovered from the Graveyard of Badamu(Yutaka Yoshida)
中古时代后期东、西亚民族交往的三座语言桥梁——《华夷译语》与《国王字典》的会聚点（刘迎胜）
精绝王陵考古二三事（王炳华）
《新唐书》“四夷传”证误（吴玉贵）
摩尼教“十二大天王”与“三大光明日”考（马小鹤）
On the Old Tibetan khri-sde(Kazushi Iwao)
“演揲儿”为回鹘语考辨——兼论番教、回教与元、明大内秘术（卓鸿泽）
西夏语译藏传佛经《吉祥遍至口合本续》（第十分）译释（孙昌盛）
初探蒙古接受藏传佛教的西夏背景（沈卫荣）
车臣汗汗位承袭的变化——以《清内阁蒙古堂档》满蒙文档案史料为中心（乌云毕力格）
In Regards to aldaγ-situ on the Sino-Mongolian Inscription of 1240（Takashi Matsukawa）
满文《大辽史》稿本考——以《dailiyoo I koodi ningguci;singdzung》为中心（承志）
《俺答汗传：16世纪的俺答汗和蒙古人》评介（特木勒 关雪艳）

How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in an approachable style, it cuts through the complex, sometimes contradictory and often obscure technical languages used in the different scientific disciplines involved in the study of linguistic evolution. Assuming no background knowledge in these disciplines, the book outlines the physical and neurological structures underlying language systems, and the limits of our knowledge concerning their evolution. Discussion questions and further reading lists encourage students to explore the primary literature further, and the final chapter demonstrates that while many questions still remain unanswered, there is a growing consensus as to how modern human languages have arisen as systems by the interplay of evolved structures and cultural transmission.

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language" lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language" solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries - the source of the Indo-European languages and English - and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.