Archaeology and Language I
Archaeology and Language I

Author: Roger Blench

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1134828772

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Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be very similar. While there is a new awareness that these disciplines can be used to complement one another, both rigorous methodological awareness and detailed case-studies are still lacking in literature. Archaeology and Language I aims to fill this lacuna. Exploring a wide range of techniques developed by specialists in each discipline, this first volume deals with broad theoretical and methodological issues and provides an indispensable background to the detail of the studies presented in volumes II and III. This collection deals with the controversial question of the origin of language, the validity of deep-level reconstruction, the sociolinguistic modelling of prehistory and the use and value of oral tradition.

Studies in Language Origins
Studies in Language Origins

Author: Jan Wind

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 902723955X

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This collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches from many disciplines that are used to unravel the mystery of the origin of language: linguistics, anatomy, physiology, paleoanthropology, neuropsychology, physical anthropology, evolutionary biology and psychology.

Nostratic
Nostratic

Author: Colin Renfrew

Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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This volume of essays examines the claim that a linguistic macrofamily can be identified which includes not only the Indo-European and Afroasiatic language families but also the Kartvelian, Uralic, Altaic and Dravidian families. The Nostratic case was put by Aharon Dolgopolsky in his The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguitic Palaeontology, and it is here evaluated critically by linguists specialising in the language families concerned. Contents include: The Nostratic Macrofamily (A. Bomhard); Nostratic Languages: Internal and External Relationship (V. Shevoroshkin); Beyond Nostratic in Time and Space (G. Decsy); Nostratic and Linguistic Palaeontology in Methodological Perspective (L. Campbell); Family Trees and Favourite Daughters (A. McMahon, M. Lohr & R. McMahon); Linguistis Palaeontology: For and Against (I. Hegedus); Afroasiatic and the Nostratic Hypothesis (D. Appleyard); The Dravidian Perspective (K. Zvelebil); Altaic Evidence for Nostratic (A. Vovin); On Semitohamitic Comparison (R. Voight); Toward a Future History of Macrofamily Research (D. Sinor).

Author: Gunnar Sevelius

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1452023514

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The book is a concise review of 200,000 years of human history. á From an anthropological standpoint the author selected nine necessities from the 190,000 year Hunting and Gathering or tibaltime. á These "nine Pillars of History are 1) food, water and energy, 2) dwelling, 3) cleanliness, $) beauty, 5) free communication, 6) community support, 7) free religion, 8) access to medical help and 9) free trade. From anthropological standpoint the Nine Pillars of History recognizes three historical time periods: hand, animal and machine transport of food. The Nine Pillars of History are used as common denominators to analyze 10,000 years of political history in agricultural and industrial times. From constitutional standpoint the Nine Pillars of History find only two kinds of leadership all through our political history: dogmatic or democratic. Sexuality we have in common with all living species. á the feminine identity is described from tribal to modern time. The author uses philology to describe how religion, The 7 th pillar, was perceived from words in our thought-process and how the Golden Rule from tribal time gave society its social and moral rules. á the Nine Pillars of History together with the Golden Rule are used as common denominators to analyze five world religions. Access to Medicine, The 8 th Historical Pillar, In modern US is compared to that of Sweden .

Language Change in South American Indian Languages
Language Change in South American Indian Languages

Author: Mary Ritchie Key

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1512803065

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South American Indian Languages are a particularly rich field for comparative study, and this book brings together some of the finest scholarship now being done in that area.

Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences
Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences

Author: Lars Borin

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 3110305259

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The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.

The Nine Pillars of History
The Nine Pillars of History

Author: GUNNAR SEVELIUS, M.D.

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1452000611

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The book is a concise review of 200,000 years of human history. From an anthropological standpoint the author selected nine necessities from the 190,000 year Hunting and Gathering or tibaltime. These "nine Pillars of History are 1) food, water and energy, 2) dwelling, 3) cleanliness, $) beauty, 5) free communication, 6) community support, 7) free religion, 8) access to medical help and 9) free trade.From anthropological standpoint the Nine Pillars of History recognizes three historical time periods: hand, animal and machine transport of food.The Nine Pillars of History are used as common denominators to analyze 10,000 years of political history in agricultural and industrial times. From constitutional standpoint the Nine Pillars of History find only two kinds of leadership all through our political history: dogmatic or democratic.Sexuality we have in common with all living species. The feminine identity is described from tribal to modern time.The author uses philology to describe how religion, the 7th pillar, was perceived from words in our thought-process and how the Golden Rule from tribal time gave society its social and moral rules. The Nine Pillars of History together with the Golden Rule are used as common denominators to analyze five world religions. Access to Medicine, the 8th Historical Pillar, in modern US is compared to that of Sweden.