Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 520 g
Reihe: One World Archaeology
Language Change and Cultural Transformation
Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 520 g
Reihe: One World Archaeology
ISBN: 978-1-138-00682-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.
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Chapter 1a General introduction, ROGER BLENCH, MATTHEW SPRIGGS; Chapter 2a Introduction, ROGER BLENCH, MATTHEW SPRIGGS; Part I RETHINKING LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION; Chapter 1 The languages of Africa: macrophyla proposals and implications for archaeological interpretation, ROGER BLENCH; Chapter 2 Elam: a bridge between Ancient Near East and Dravidian India?, VÁCLAV BLA ŽEK; Chapter 3 Language diversification in the Akoko area of Western Nigeria, CHINYERE OHIRI-ANICHE; Chapter 4 Revising Polynesian linguistic subgrouping and its culture history implications, JEFF MARCK; Part II INTERPRETING CHANGE; Chapter 5 Celts and others: maritime contacts and linguistic change, JOHN WADDELL, JANE CONROY; Chapter 6 Archaeological-linguistic correlations in the formation of retroflex typologies and correlating areal features in South Asia, BERTIL TIKKANEN; Chapter 7 Language change in Southern Melanesia: linguistic aberrancy and genetic distance, JOHN LYNCH; Chapter 8 Linguistic and philological data towards a chronology of Austronesian activity in India and Sri Lanka, WARUNO MAHDI;
