Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
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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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.3xprr3 2023-05-15T13:14:25+02:00 Language Dispersal Beyond Farming 2017-01-01 https://doi.org/10.1075/z.215 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/c7a5399c-796c-4b24-b0fe-9e446894d3d5/assets/external_content.pdf https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/c7a5399c-796c-4b24-b0fe-9e446894d3d5 en eng John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN:9789027264640 doi:10.1075/z.215 10670/1.3xprr3 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/c7a5399c-796c-4b24-b0fe-9e446894d3d5/assets/external_content.pdf https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/c7a5399c-796c-4b24-b0fe-9e446894d3d5 lic_creative-commons Open Research Library lang litt Book https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_2f33/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1075/z.215 2023-01-22T18:39:33Z 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 Book aleut eskimo* Eskimo–Aleut Unknown Aymara ENVELOPE(-60.783,-60.783,-62.450,-62.450) Amsterdam |
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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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John Benjamins Publishing Company |
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