The Speakers of IE and Their World.

I’ve been alerted to The Speakers of Indo-European and Their World (ed. Sergio Neri and Michiel de Vaan; open access) twice today — by David Marjanović in this comment and by Matthew Scarborough in this blog post, where he writes “My own contribution deals with methodology in investigating prehistoric loanwords in Ancient Greek and a preliminary archaeolinguistic case study of etymologically obscure vocabulary in the semantic fields of construction and crafting terminology”; the publisher’s page says:

This book focuses on the history of the Indo-European languages. Research on the origins and dispersal of Indo-European has long relied on linguistic and archaeological evidence. Recent advances in archaeogenetics have made it possible to confirm, challenge, and refine earlier hypotheses. The 26 conference contributions collected in this volume combine linguistic, archaeological, and genetic data to investigate various topics in European and Eurasian population history, language contact, cultural practices, lexical semantics, grammar, and etymology.

That’s about as Hattic a book as I can imagine; here’s the T of C, with titles as varied as “Splitting the stone sky, sitting in the womb of the dawns: How to become a divás putrás in Early Vedic afterlife” (by Roland A. Pooth) and “The Thematic Aorist in Late Nuclear Proto-Indo-European” (by Jeremy Rau). I look forward to investigating it.