Ethnolinguistic Prehistory
Title | Ethnolinguistic Prehistory PDF eBook |
Author | George L. van Driem |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2021-05-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004448373 |
This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture. The book provides detailed answers to the question of where we all came from.
Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya
Title | Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya PDF eBook |
Author | Mark W. Post |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2022-08-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004518045 |
The prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya has forever been shrouded in legend. In this pioneering volume, a group of world-leading linguists and anthropologists reconstruct its extraordinary prehistory from an interdisciplinary perspective for the first time.
Language, History, and Identity
Title | Language, History, and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Paul V. Kroskrity |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2016-11-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081653506X |
The Arizona Tewa are a Pueblo Indian group that migrated around 1700 to First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation and who, while speaking Hopi, have also retained their native language. Paul V. Kroskrity examines this curiosity of language and culture, explaining the various ways in which the Tewa use their linguistic resources to successfully adapt to the Hopi and their environment while retaining their native language and the cultural identity it embodies.
A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
Title | A History of East Baltic through Language Contact PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Jakob |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2023-12-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004686479 |
The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other speech communities. This book challenges that view, taking a deep dive into the East Baltic lexicon and peeling away the layers of prehistoric borrowings in the process. As well as significant contact events with known languages, the lexicon also reveals evidence of contact with unattested languages from which previous populations must have shifted.
Language, History, Ideology
Title | Language, History, Ideology PDF eBook |
Author | Camiel Hamans |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 019882789X |
This volume explores the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. The chapters present twelve in-depth case studies that cover topics ranging from the location of the Indo-European homeland to language policy in the former Yugoslavia.
Archaeology and Language
Title | Archaeology and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Renfrew |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1990-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521386753 |
In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. Professor Renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result, largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumed.
Language in Prehistory
Title | Language in Prehistory PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Barnard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2016-01-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107041120 |
Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard explores the evolution of language by investigating the lives and languages of modern hunter-gatherers.