Language Contacts In Prehistory

Author : Henning Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588113795
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Contacts in Prehistory written by Henning Andersen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy the systematic study of such layers may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural contacts in the past. In this volume are discussed past problems and current advances in the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, Japanese, and Meso-American languages.

Author : James Noel Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199245062
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingualism in Ancient Society written by James Noel Adams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research into evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.

Author : John D. Bengtson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027232520
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory written by John D. Bengtson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming's major focus on language — he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue — the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming's extensive field experience in Africa some of the articles deal with African topics. This volume is intended to exemplify the principle, in the words of Fleming himself, that each of the four disciplines is enriched when it combines with any one of the other four. The authors are representative of the cutting edge of their respective fields, and this book is unusual in including contributions from a wide range of anthropological fields rather than concentrating in any one of them.

Author : Alfred Bammesberger
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages in prehistoric Europe written by Alfred Bammesberger and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the advent of writing and before the development of the Indo-European language, Europe enjoyed much greater linguistic diversity with a whole host of other languages (Hispanic, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, to name but a few) which are now defunct. This collection of nineteen papers from a conference held at the Katholische Universitat Eichstatt in Germany in 1999, examine this diversity from archaeological (two papers) and linguistic perspectives. Contributors include: Robert S P Beekes, Ivo Hajnal, Petri Kallio, Thomas Lindner, Oswald Panagl, Colin Renfrew, Klaus Strunk and Juergen Untermann. Papers in English and German.

Author : Peter Forster
Publisher : McDonald Institute Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages written by Peter Forster and published by McDonald Institute Monographs. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary ('phylogenetic') trees were first used to infer lost histories nearly two centuries ago by manuscript scholars reconstructing original texts. Today, computer methods are enabling phylogenetic trees to transform genetics, historical linguistics and even the archaeological study of artefact shapes and styles. But which phylogenetic methods are best suited to retracing the evolution of languages? And which types of language data are most informative about deep prehistory? In this book, leading specialists engage with these key questions. Essential reading for linguists, geneticists and archaeologists, these studies demonstrate how phylogenetic tools are illuminating previously intractable questions about language prehistory. This innovative volume arose from a conference of linguists, geneticists and archaeologists held at Cambridge in 2004.

Author : Géza Révész
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins and Prehistory of Language written by Géza Révész and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1970 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477399
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennia of Language Change written by Peter Trudgill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317743237
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics written by Claire Bowern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectives methods and models language change interfaces regional summaries Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area. Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28

Author : Riho Grünthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789525667424
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe written by Riho Grünthal and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004508872
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variation, Contact, and Reconstruction in the Ancient Indo-European Languages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the vibrancy of historical linguistics, showing how research on ancient Indo-European languages contributes to the understanding of the principles and patterns of language organization and change, including studies on typologically natural tendencies and cognitive universals.