Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Robbeets, Martine
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming - Amsterdam & Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017 - 1 electronic resource (340 p.)
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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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English
z.215 9789027264640; 9789027212559
10.1075/z.215 doi
linguistics
Historical & comparative linguistics
Language Linguistics Theoretical Anthropology Evolution History Cognate Rice
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming - Amsterdam & Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017 - 1 electronic resource (340 p.)
Open Access
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
Creative Commons
English
z.215 9789027264640; 9789027212559
10.1075/z.215 doi
linguistics
Historical & comparative linguistics
Language Linguistics Theoretical Anthropology Evolution History Cognate Rice