Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agricultur...
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ftdoab:oai:directory.doabooks.org:20.500.12854/33541 2023-05-15T13:14:25+02:00 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z image/jpeg http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29648 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12657/29648 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf eng eng John Benjamins Publishing Company 1000295 OCN: 1018159889 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29648 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf 2021 ftdoab https://doi.org/20.500.12657/29648 2022-05-01T00:20:48Z Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. In this volume, their proposal is reassessed by linguists, investigating to what extent the economic dependence on plant cultivation really impacted language spread in various parts of the world. Special attention is paid to "tricky" language families such as Eskimo-Aleut, Quechua, Aymara, Bantu, Indo-European, Transeurasian, Turkic, Japano-Koreanic, Hmong-Mien and Trans-New Guinea, that cannot unequivocally be regarded as instances of Farming/Language Dispersal, even if subsistence played a role in their expansion Other/Unknown Material aleut eskimo* Eskimo–Aleut Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Aymara ENVELOPE(-60.783,-60.783,-62.450,-62.450) |
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Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. In this volume, their proposal is reassessed by linguists, investigating to what extent the economic dependence on plant cultivation really impacted language spread in various parts of the world. Special attention is paid to "tricky" language families such as Eskimo-Aleut, Quechua, Aymara, Bantu, Indo-European, Transeurasian, Turkic, Japano-Koreanic, Hmong-Mien and Trans-New Guinea, that cannot unequivocally be regarded as instances of Farming/Language Dispersal, even if subsistence played a role in their expansion |
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