 | Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics by Oswald J. L. Szemerenyi
Buy new: $70.00 / Used from: $42.00 My favorite basic reference .
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 | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction by Robert S. P. Beekes
Buy new: $41.61 / Used from: $28.47 more structured than Szemerenyi, a bit more "popular".
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 | A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages: A Contribution to the History of Ideas by Carl Darling Buck
Buy new: $51.00 / Used from: $29.85 I keep this book near my bed :) it is a treasure.
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 | The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots : Second Edition by Calvert Watkins
very basic, but fun if you're looking for a quick reference.
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 | Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch Set 2 vols. by Julius Pokorny
Buy new: $595.00 / Used from: $285.00 Pokorny - *the* dictionary of IE roots. A must if you are serious (and rich).
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| Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and a Proto-Culture (Trends in Linguistics: Studies ... Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm]) by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
Buy new: $248.00 / Used from: $450.21 a brilliant, if somehow controversial, book.
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| Indo-European Language and Society (Miami linguistics series no. 12) by Emile Benveniste
fascinating study of IE society as can be seen through the common IE words and their meanings.
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| A Dictionary Of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 10) by Douglas Q. Adams
Buy new: $310.50 necessary for the study of Tocharian B. Excellent.
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| Tocharian Historical Phonology and Morphology (American Oriental Series) by Douglas Q. Adams
All books by prof. Adams are recommented. This one is important for the study of Tocharian, or for a general reference on IE.
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 | Vedic Grammar by A. A. Macdonell
indispensible if you intend to study Vedic
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| The Medium in the Rgveda (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina) by Jan Gonda
Buy used from: $177.94 you don't necessarily need this one, but look for Gonda's books on the Vedic language.
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| A Rgvedic Word Concordance (Publication / Middle American Research Institute) 2 Volume Set by Alexander Lubotsky
Buy new: $125.00 this concordance is very important for Vedic, probably less important for general IE.
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 | Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth
Buy new: $44.63 / Used from: $20.00 a basic Greek grammar, very good.
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| Old Prussian Grammar: The Phonology and Morphology of the Three Catechisms by William R. Schmalstieg
meet Old Prussian - an extinct Baltic language, and W. Schmalstieg, the brilliant scholar.
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 | Old Church Slavonic Grammar by Horace G. Lunt
Buy new: $39.20 / Used from: $39.18 a must, but you will be happier with an earlier edition.
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| An Introduction to Old Russian (Journal of Indo-European Monograph Series No 15) by William R. Schmalstieg
Buy used from: $113.83 this introduction to Old Russian is excellent; before this we had , for the English speaker, "History of Russian" by Matthews. It was awful.
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| The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis, Problems of Translation (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications) by Horace G. Lunt
Buy new: $42.00 / Used from: $38.55 this probably doesn't belong here, but I couldn't resist. I was Prof. Taube's apprentice :)
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 | An Introduction to Old Norse by E. V. Gordon
Buy new: $68.00 / Used from: $50.99 not the best book for the very advanced, but you have to start somewhere. Classic.
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 | The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Garland Medieval Casebooks) by Paul L. Acker
Buy new: $125.00 / Used from: $112.04 waiting for this one for two years now.
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| Grammar of Middle Welsh (Mediaeval & Modern Welsh) (English and Welsh Edition) by D.Simon Evans
Buy used from: $40.00 this classic Middle Welsh grammar is recommended.
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| A Grammar of Old Irish (Irish language: grammar) by Rudolf Thurneysen
Buy used from: $79.75 a book almost as impossible as Old Irish itself. Good luck!
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 | How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics by Calvert Watkins
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $24.79 and for treat: Calvert Watkins! This study is exemplary and fascinating.
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