Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance : problems in comparative linguistics
Areal linguistics Comparative linguistics Language spread Languages in contact Linguistic change e-böcker
Oxford University Press
2006
EISBN 9780191523014
Preface; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORICAL DETERMINANTS OF PUNCTUATION IN LANGUAGE-FAMILY ORIGINS; 3 AN INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC AREA AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS: ANCIENT ANATOLIA. AREAL DIFFUSION AS A CHALLENGE TO THE COMPARATIVE METHOD?; 4 THE AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTIC AREA; 5 DESCENT AND DIFFUSION: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PILBARA SITUATION; 6 CONTACT-INDUCED CHANGE IN OCEANIC LANGUAGES IN NORTH-WEST MELANESIA; 7 AREAL DIFFUSION, GENETIC INHERITANCE, AND PROBLEMS OF SUBGROUPING: A NORTH ARAWAK CASE STUDY
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The chapters cover Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan. Africa. - ;Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the fo.
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The chapters cover Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan. Africa. - ;Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the fo.
