Andrew Wigman

Biographic Data

ID10270792
NAMEAndrew Wigman
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMEWigman
SIGNATUREWIGMAN A
AFFILIATIONSLeiden University
ORCID0000-0002-3833-3324
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics

    Open AccessD W Anthony, Natalia I Shishlina et al.BOOKIndo-European Puzzle Revisited2023

    This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…

  • Word Mining: Metal Names and the Indo-European Dispersal

    Open AccessRasmus Thorsø, Andrew Wigman et al.CHAPTERIndo-European Puzzle Revisited2023

    The first use of metals in the production of objects among human societies was undoubtedly a defining event with a profound, irreversible impact on craftsmanship, agriculture, trade, warfare, and other cultural and political phenomena. The continuous refinement of metallurgical practice, including the introduction of new metals, has left behind some of the most conspicuous and important archaeological remains. Furthermore, the linguistic and arch…

  • Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages

    Open AccessGuus Kroonen, Anthony Jakob et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2022

    Questions on the timing and the center of the Indo-European language dispersal are central to debates on the formation of the European and Asian linguistic landscapes and are deeply intertwined with questions on the archaeology and population history of these continents. Recent palaeogenomic studies support scenarios in which the core Indo-European languages spread with the expansion of Early Bronze Age Yamnaya herders that originally inhabited t…

  • Proto-Indo-European *sneigwh- ‘to fall down; to snow’

    Guus Kroonen, Andrew Wigman et al.ARTICLEHistorical Linguistics2021

    In this paper we present a diachronically syntactic analysis of the PIE verbal root *sneigwh-, arguing that it did not originally mean ‘to snow’, in the proto-language, but rather more primarily ‘to fall down’. Evidence from several Indo-European branches is evaluated and argued to support a scenario in which the former meaning arose from the latter in a so-called impersonal verbal construction