28.4766, Books: The Indo-European Controversy: Pereltsvaig, Lewis

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:02:44
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Indo-European Controversy: Pereltsvaig, Lewis

 


Title: The Indo-European Controversy 
Subtitle: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/historical-linguistics/indo-european-controversy-facts-and-fallacies-historical-linguistics 


Author: Asya Pereltsvaig
Author: Martin W. Lewis

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107665385 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107665385 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107665385 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary
biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of
phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and
conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of the diffusion of viruses.
Using these techniques, researchers claim to have located the origin of the
Indo-European language family in Neolithic Anatolia, challenging the
near-consensus view that it emerged in the grasslands north of the Black Sea
thousands of years later. But despite its widespread celebration in the global
media, this new approach fails to withstand scrutiny. As languages do not
evolve like biological species and do not spread like viruses, the model
produces incoherent results, contradicted by the empirical record at every
turn. This book asserts that the origin and spread of languages must be
examined primarily through the time-tested techniques of linguistic analysis,
rather than those of evolutionary biology.
 



Introduction: the Indo-European debate and why it matters

Part I. The Vexatious History of Indo-European Studies:
1. Ideology and interpretation from the 1700s to the 1970s
2. Anatolia vs the Steppes

Part II. The Failings of the Bayesian Phylogenetic Research Program:
3. What theory we want and what theory we get
4. Linguistic fallacies of the Bayesian phylogenetic model
5. Dating problems of the Bayesian phylogenetic model
6. The historical-geographical failure of the Bayesian phylogenetic model
7. Unwarranted assumptions

Part III. Searching for Indo-European Origins:
8. Why linguists don't do dates? Or do they?
9. Triangulating the Indo-European homeland
10. The non-mystery of Indo-European expansion
11. Whither historical linguistics?
Conclusion: what is at stake in the Indo-European debate.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Indo-European


Written In: English  (eng)

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