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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:13:45
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming: Robbeets, Savelyev (eds.)

 


Title: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.215 


Editor: Martine Robbeets
Editor: Alexander Savelyev

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264640 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 0
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212559 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212559 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212559 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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