Toponymic Persistence: The Proto-Indo-European *kar- Root in the Pre-Latin Ligurian Context*

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2016
• الموضوعات: Linguistics and Multilingual Studies; Theoretical Linguistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107323; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40586; http://www.actalinguistica.com/journal/index.php/al/article/view/64
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This paper provides a survey on the proto-Indo-European root *kar-/ *kal- ‘stone, rock’ and on the related European prehistoric toponymy following a new convergent approach. The stem *kar- is considered as a presumably pre-Indo-European root transferred (after the possible arrival of the Indo-Europ...