TY  - GEN
AU  - Robbeets,Martine
AU  - Savelyev,Alexander
AU  - Robbeets,Martine
AU  - Savelyev,Alexander
TI  - Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
SN  - z.215
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Amsterdam & Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - linguistics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Historical & comparative linguistics
KW  - Language
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Theoretical
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Evolution
KW  - History
KW  - Cognate
KW  - Rice
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33541
ER  -