''Indogermanische Forschungen'' (English: ''Indo-European Researches''; subtitled ''Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und historische Sprachwissenschaft/Journal of Indo-European Studies and Historical Linguistics'') is an annual

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. It focuses primarily on

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, but also publishes contributions on other languages and linguistic fields. It was established in 1892 by

Karl Brugmann Karl Brugmann (16 March 1849 – 29 June 1919) was a German linguist. He is noted for his work in Indo-European linguistics. Biography He was educated at the universities of Halle and Leipzig. He taught at the gymnasium at Wiesbaden and at Lei ...

and

Wilhelm Streitberg Wilhelm August Streitberg (23 February 1864, in Rüdesheim am Rhein – 19 August 1925, in Leipzig) was a German Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Germanic languages. Together with Karl Brugmann he founded the ''Indogermanische Forschungen'' j ...

and published until vol. 37 (1916/17) by Verlag Karl J. Trübner. Starting with vol. 38 (1917/20) it has been published on an annual basis by

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. Vols. 1–43 were supplemented with the ''Anzeiger für indogermanische Sprach- und Altertumskunde. Beiblatt zu den Indogermanischen Forschungen'', a review journal edited by Streitberg. The

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are Benjamin W. Fortson (

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), Götz Keydana, Melanie Malzahn, Paul Widmer.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is

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, and

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Online. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 0.462.

Editors

The following persons are or have been

of the journal:

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/indo
''Indogermanische Forschungen'' on archive.org

Index of ''Indogermanische Forschungen'' 1-50 on archive.org
Indo-European linguistics works Linguistics journals Publications established in 1892 De Gruyter academic journals Multilingual journals Annual journals