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1 online resource (377 p.) |
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Cover -- Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact: A Global Perspective -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- List of maps, figures, and tables -- Maps -- Figures -- Tables -- List of contributors -- Part I: General Approaches -- Chapter 1: Patterns of diversification and contact: Re-examining dispersal hypotheses -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Three types of diversity and their time depth -- 1.1.2 The distribution of languages over the continents -- 1.2 Models of dispersal and the role of geography -- 1.2.1 Johanna Nichols -- 1.2.2 R.M.W. Dixon |
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1.2.3 Daniel Nettle -- 1.2.4 The Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis -- 1.3 Language families -- 1.4 Language isolates -- 1.5 Linguistic areas -- 1.6 Mechanisms and processes of diversification, dispersal, and contact -- 1.6.1 Preliminaries and methodological issues -- 1.6.2 Population structure -- 1.6.3 Demographic spread versus language shift -- 1.6.4 Diversification -- 1.6.5 Language contact processes -- 1.7 Social and cultural factors: The role of language ideology and communication patterns -- 1.8 The present volume -- Chapter 2: Dispersal patterns shape areal typology -- 2.1 Introduction |
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2.2 Types of areas -- 2.2.1 Closed spread zone: Africa -- 2.2.2 Crossroads: Southeast Asia -- 2.2.3 Accumulation zones -- 2.3 Behavior of typological variables in contact -- 2.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Sociolinguistic typology and the uniformitarian hypothesis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Linguistic features due to arbitrary human invention -- 3.3 Linguistic features due to non-anonymity -- 3.4 Linguistics features due to non-optimality -- 3.5 Linguistic features due to dense social networks -- 3.6 Linguistic features due to communally shared information |
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3.7 Linguistic features due to long-term maturation -- 3.8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 4: Geographical axis effects in large-scale linguistic distributions -- 4.1 Introduction: Areal linguistics and linguistic areas -- 4.2 Geographical axis effects -- 4.2.1 The macro-areal profile of Africa -- 4.2.2 Large-scale feature distributions involving linguistic convergence -- 4.2.3 Language families in large geographical space -- 4.2.3.1 The latitude spread potential and language family axes -- 4.2.3.2 The longitude spread constraint and intra-lineage diversity -- 4.3 Conclusions |
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Chapter 5: Large and ancient linguistic areas -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Traditional approaches -- 5.3 An alternative: Exploring family biases -- 5.3.1 Diachronic biases -- 5.3.2 Isolates and small families -- 5.3.3 Inference -- 5.4 Case study: The Trans-Pacific area -- 5.4.1 Data and Methods -- 5.4.2 Results and discussion -- 5.5 Conclusions and prospects -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Part II: Southeast Asia and Oceania -- Chapter 6: Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania -- 6.1 Introduction: Diversity in the region |
| Summary |
This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new analytical research techniques and drawing on large databases, with a focus on the language and population histories of Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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6.1.1 Languages and language families |
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Language spread.
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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Languages in contact.
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Language and languages
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Language and languages -- Variation
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Language spread
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Languages in contact
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Southeast Asia -- Languages -- History
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Oceania -- Languages -- History
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Africa -- Languages -- History
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South America -- Languages -- History
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Africa
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Oceania
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South America
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Southeast Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Muysken, Pieter
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| ISBN |
9780191035753 |
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0191035750 |
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