The Prehistory Of Languages
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Author | : Mary R. Haas |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2018-12-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110881640 |
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Author | : John D. Bengtson |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027232520 |
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Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming's major focus on language he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming's extensive field experience in Africa some of the articles deal with African topics. This volume is intended to exemplify the principle, in the words of Fleming himself, that each of the four disciplines is enriched when it combines with any one of the other four. The authors are representative of the cutting edge of their respective fields, and this book is unusual in including contributions from a wide range of anthropological fields rather than concentrating in any one of them.
Author | : Steven Roger Fischer |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004-10-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1861895941 |
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It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form. He considers the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon and slang, as well as the effects radio and television, propaganda, advertising and the media are having on language today. Looking to the future, he shows how electronic media will continue to reshape and re-invent the ways in which we communicate. "[a] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book ... a virtuoso tour of the linguistic world."—The Economist "... few who read this remarkable study will regard language in quite the same way again."—The Good Book Guide
Author | : Tore Janson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002-03-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191622907 |
Download Speak: A Short History of Languages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. It shows how languages change their sounds and meanings, and how the history of languages is closely linked to the history of peoples. Writing in a lively, readable style, distinguished Swedish scholar Tore Janson makes no assumptions about previous knowledge. He takes the reader on a voyage of exploration through the changing patterns of the world's languages, from ancient China to ancient Egypt, imperial Rome to imperial Britain, Sappho's Lesbos to contemporary Africa. He discovers the links between the histories of societies and their languages; he shows how language evolved from primitive calls; he considers the question of whether one language can be more advanced than another. The author describes the history of writing and looks at the impact of changing technology. He ends by assessing the prospects for English world domination and predicting the languages of the distant future. Five historical maps illustrate this fascinating history of our defining characteristic and most valuable asset.
Author | : Colin Renfrew |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1990-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521386753 |
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In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. Professor Renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result, largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumed.
Author | : Peter Forster |
Publisher | : McDonald Institute Monographs |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Evolutionary ('phylogenetic') trees were first used to infer lost histories nearly two centuries ago by manuscript scholars reconstructing original texts. Today, computer methods are enabling phylogenetic trees to transform genetics, historical linguistics and even the archaeological study of artefact shapes and styles. But which phylogenetic methods are best suited to retracing the evolution of languages? And which types of language data are most informative about deep prehistory? In this book, leading specialists engage with these key questions. Essential reading for linguists, geneticists and archaeologists, these studies demonstrate how phylogenetic tools are illuminating previously intractable questions about language prehistory. This innovative volume arose from a conference of linguists, geneticists and archaeologists held at Cambridge in 2004.
Author | : Mary Rosamund Haas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Linguistic change |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tore Janson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199604282 |
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Does not discuss the Semitic languages.
Author | : Mary Rosamond, Haas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan Barnard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107041120 |
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Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard explores the evolution of language by investigating the lives and languages of modern hunter-gatherers.