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Скачать № 5 (106), 2013 (Pdf) Российский государственный гуманитарный университет Russian State University for the Humanities RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN № 5(106) Academic Journal Series: Philology. Linguistic Studies. Journal of Language Relationship Issue 9 (2013) Moscow 2013 ВЕСТНИК РГГУ № 5(106) Научный журнал Серия «Филологические науки. Языкознание» / «Вопросы языкового родства» Выпуск 9 (2013) Москва 2013 УДК 81(05) ББК 81я5 Главный редактор Е.И. Пивовар Ответственный секретарь Б.Г. Власов Редакционный совет серии «Филологические науки. Языкознание» / «Вопросы языкового родства» Председатель Вяч. Вс. Иванов (Москва – Лос-Анджелес) Х. Айхнер (Вена) М. Е. Алексеев (Москва) В. Блажек (Брно) У. Бэкстер (Анн Арбор) В. Ф. Выдрин (Санкт-Петербург) М. Гелл-Манн (Санта Фе) Ф. Кортландт (Лейден) А. Лубоцкий (Лейден) Л. Хайман (Лос-Анжелес) Редакционная коллегия серии: В. А. Дыбо (главный редактор) Г. С. Старостин (заместитель главного редактора) Т. А. Михайлова (ответственный секретарь) К. В. Бабаев А. В. Дыбо А. С. Касьян С. В. Кулланда И. С. Якубович ISSN 1998-6769 © Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 2013 УДК 81(05) ББК 81я5 Вопросы языкового родства: Международный научный журнал / Рос. гос. гуманитар. ун-т; Рос. акад. наук. Ин-т языкознания; под ред. В. А. Дыбо. ― М., 2013. ― № 9. ― xii + 166 с. ― (Вестник РГГУ: Научный журнал; Серия «Филологические науки. Язы- кознание»; № 5(106)). Journal of Language Relationship: International Scientific Periodical / Russian State Uni- versity for the Humanities; Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Linguistics; Ed. by V. A. Dybo. ― Moscow, 2013. ― No. 9. ― xii + 166 p. ― (RSUH Bulletin: Scientific Peri- odical; Linguistics Series; No. 5(106)). ISSN 1998-6769 http://www.jolr.ru/ [email protected] Дополнительные знаки: С. Г. Болотов Add-on symbols by S. G. Bolotov Подписано в печать 14.01.2013. Формат 60×90/8. Бум. офсетная. Печать офсетная. Тираж 1050 экз. Заказ № Отпечатано в полном соответствии с качеством предоставленного оригинал-макета в «Наша Полиграфия», г. Калуга, ул. Грабцевское шоссе, 126 Лиц. ПЛД № 42-29 от 23.12.99 Table of Contents / Содержание Table of Contents / Содержание ................................................. vii Contributors / Сведения об авторах ................................................ ix Note for Contributors / Будущим авторам ............................................ x Preface / Предисловие ........................................................ xi Articles / Статьи David W. Anthony. Two IE phylogenies, three PIE migrations, and four kinds of steppe pastoralism ............................................................1 [Д. В. Энтони. Две индоевропейские филогении, три праиндоевропейские миграции и четыре типа степного скотоводства] Oleg Balanovsky, Olga Utevska, Elena Balanovska. Genetics of Indo-European populations: the past, the future ..................................................... 23 [О. П. Балановский, О. М. Утевская, Е. В. Балановская. Молекулярно-генетические исследования индоевропейских популяций: прошлое и будущее] Václav Blažek. Indo-European zoonyms in Afroasiatic perspective ..................... 37 [В. Блажек. Индоевропейские названия животных в афразийской перспективе] S. A. Burlak. Languages, DNA, relationship and contacts ........................... 55 [С. А. Бурлак. Языки, геном, родство и контакты] Anna Dybo. Language and archeology: some methodological problems. 1. Indo-European and Altaic landscapes ................................................... 69 [А. В. Дыбо. Язык и археология: некоторые методологические проблемы. 1. Праиндоевропейская и праалтайская ландшафтная терминология] В. А. Дыбо. Диалектное членение праиндоевропейского по акцентологическим данным ............................................................. 93 [V. A. Dybo. Dialectal variation of Proto-Indo-European in the light of accentological research] Т. В. Гамкрелидзе, Вяч. Вс. Иванов. Индоевропейская прародина и расселение индоевропейцев: полвека исследований и обсуждений ..................... 109 [Tamaz Gamkrelidze, Vyach. Vs. Ivanov. Indo-European homeland and migrations: half a century of studies and discussions] Sergey Kullanda. Early Indo-European social organization and the Indo-European homeland ........................................................... 137 [С. В. Кулланда. Социальная организация ранних индоевропейцев и индоевропейская прародина] J. P. Mallory. Twenty-first century clouds over Indo-European homelands .............. 145 [Дж. П. Мэллори. Индоевропейская прародина: тень на плетень в XXI веке] Table of Contents / Содержание Reports / Хроника Международная научная конференция памяти Николая Яковлевича Мерперта, Москва, 11—12 сентября 2012 г. [International Conference in Memory of Nikolai Merpert, Moscow, 11–12 September, 2012] «Археологические исследования Северной Месопотамии и Северного Кавказа» (Т. В. Корниенко) ..................................................... 155 [“Archaeological Investigations in North Mesopotamia and North Caucasus Steppe Regions” (Tatiana Kornienko)] «Проблемы прародины индоевропейцев» (Евгения Коровина) ................. 163 [“Indo-European Homeland and Migrations: Linguistics, Archeology and DNA” (Eugenia Korovina)] Сведения об авторах Балановская, Елена Владимировна — доктор биол. наук, про- Иванов, Вячеслав Всеволодович — доктор филол. наук, акад. фессор, зав. лабораторией популяционной генетики че- РАН, профессор Университета Калифорнии (Лос-Анже- ловека ФГБУ «Медико-генетический научный центр» лес), директор Института мировой культуры при МГУ, РАМН (Москва), [email protected] [email protected] Балановский, Олег Павлович — доктор биол. наук, рук. группы Корниенко, Татьяна Владимировна — канд. ист. наук, преп. геномной географии ФГБУН, Институт общей генетики Воронежского государственного педагогического уни- им. Н.И. Вавилова РАН (Москва), [email protected] верситета, [email protected] Блажек, Вацлав — проф. университета им. Масарика (Брно), Коровина, Евгения Владимировна — аспирант Центра компа- [email protected] ративистики ИВКА РГГУ (Москва), [email protected] Бурлак, Светлана Анатольевна – канд. филол. наук, ст. науч. Кулланда, Сергей Всеволодович — канд. ист. наук, ст. науч. со- сотрудник Института востоковедения РАН (Москва), трудник Института востоковедения РАН (Москва), svetlana.burlak @bk.ru [email protected] Дыбо, Анна Владимировна — доктор филол. наук, чл.-кор. Мэллори, Джеймс Патрик — профессор Университета Коро- РАН, проф. Центра компаративистики ИВКА РГГУ, зав. левы в Белфасте, [email protected] отделом урало-алтайских языков Института языкозна- Утевская, Ольга Михайловна — канд. биол. наук, доцент ка- ния РАН (Москва), [email protected] федры генетики и цитологии биологического факульте- Дыбо, Владимир Антонович — доктор филол. наук, акад. РАН, та Харьковского национального университета им. В.Н. зав. Центром компаративистики ИВКА РГГУ (Москва), Каразина (Харьков), [email protected] [email protected] Энтони, Дэвид — научный сотрудник факультета антрополо- Гамкрелидзе, Тамаз Валерианович — доктор филол. наук, акад. гии Хартвикского колледжа (Онеонта, США), РАН, президент Грузинской академии наук, [email protected] [email protected] Contributors David W. Anthony — Anthropology Department, Hartwick Col- Tamaz Gamkrelidze — doctor of sciences (Philology), member of lege (Oneonta, New York), [email protected] the Russian Academy of Sciences, president of the Georgian Elena Balanovska — doctor of sciences (Biology), professor, Head Academy of Sciences, [email protected] of the Human Population Genetics Laboratory of Research Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov — doctor of sciences (Philology), Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at Sciences (Moscow), [email protected] the University of California, Los Angeles, head of the Insti- Oleg Balanovsky — doctor of sciences (Biology), Head of the Ge- tute of World Culture at Lomonosov Moscow State Univer- nome Geography Group of Vavilov Institute for General Ge- sity, [email protected] netics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Tatiana Kornienko — candidate of sciences (History), researcher, [email protected] Voronezh State Pedagogical University, [email protected] Václav Blažek — professor, Masaryk University, Brno, Eugenia Korovina — postgraduate student, Center for Compara- [email protected] tive Linguistics, Russian State University for the Humanities Svetlana Burlak – candidate of sciences (Philology), senior re- (Moscow), [email protected] searcher, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Acad- Sergey Kullanda — candidate of sciences (History), senior re- emy of Sciences (Moscow), svetlana.burlak @bk.ru searcher, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Acad- Anna Dybo — doctor of sciences (Philology), corresponding emy of Sciences (Moscow), [email protected] member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; professor, James Patrick Mallory — professor, Queen’s University (Belfast), Center for Comparative Linguistics, Russian State University [email protected] for the Humanities; head of Department of Uralo-Altaic Olga Utevska — candidate of sciences (Biology), associate profes- Studies, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sci- sor of Department of Genetics and Cytology, School of Biol- ences (Moscow), [email protected] ogy, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkov, Vladimir Dybo — doctor of sciences (Philology), member of the Ukraine), [email protected] Russian Academy of Sciences, head of Center for Compara- tive
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