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Author Societas Linguistica Europaea. Meeting (49th : 2016 : Naples, Italy)

Title Language dispersal beyond farming / edited by Martine Robbeets, Alexander Savelyev
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Contents Farming/language dispersal : food for thought / Martine Robbeets -- Proto-Quechua and proto-Aymara agropastoral terms : reconstruction and contact patterns / Nicholas Q. Emlen and Willem F.H. Adelaar -- Subsistence terms in Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) / Anna Berge -- Lexical recycling as a lens onto shared Japano-Koreanic agriculture / Alexander Francis-Ratte -- The language of the Transeurasian farmers / Martine Robbeets -- Farming-related terms in Proto-Turkic and Proto-Altaic / Alexander Savelyev -- Farming and the Trans-New Guinea family : a first consideration / Antoinette Schapper -- The domestications and the domesticators of Asian rice / George van Driem -- Macrofamilies and agricultural lexicon : problems and perspectives / George Starostin -- Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence / Koen Bostoen and Joseph Koni Muluwa -- Expanding the methodology of lexical examination in the investigation of the intersection of early agriculture and language dispersal / Brian D. Joseph -- Agricultural terms in Indo-Iranian / Martin Joachim Kïmmel -- Milk and the Indo-Europeans / Romain Garnier, Laurent Sagart and Benoït Sagot
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Language
Linguistics
Theoretical
Anthropology
Evolution
History
Notes Based on papers presented at a symposium entitled "The language of the first farmers", organized by Martine Robbeets at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Naples, September 2-3, 2016
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2018)
Subject Language spread -- Congresses
Languages in contact -- Congresses
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Congresses
Pastoral systems, Prehistoric -- Congresses
Anthropologic linguistics -- Congresses
Linguistics.
Historical & comparative linguistics.
Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics.
Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Etymology.
Pastoral systems, Prehistoric
Languages in contact
Agriculture, Prehistoric
Language spread
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Robbeets, Martine Irma, editor
Savelyev, Alexander (Linguist), 1989- editor.
LC no. 2018036512
ISBN 9027264643
9789027264640