Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

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 agricultur...

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description 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
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-335412025-05-08T11:13:47Z Language Dispersal Beyond Farming Robbeets, Martine Savelyev, Alexander Language Linguistics Theoretical Anthropology Evolution History Cognate Rice 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 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-08-08 10:27:37 2020-04-01T12:34:50Z 2017 book 1000295 OCN: 1018159889 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29648 9789027264640; 9789027212559 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33541 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29648/1/9789027264640.pdf John Benjamins Publishing Company 10.1075/z.215 10.1075/z.215 a0ecc02e-9674-41da-98fe-e7842d79279a H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9789027264640; 9789027212559 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 340 Amsterdam & Philadelphia 646612 H2020 open access
spellingShingle Language
Linguistics
Theoretical
Anthropology
Evolution
History
Cognate
Rice
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
title Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
title_full Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
title_fullStr Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
title_full_unstemmed Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
title_short Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
title_sort language dispersal beyond farming
topic Language
Linguistics
Theoretical
Anthropology
Evolution
History
Cognate
Rice
topic_facet Language
Linguistics
Theoretical
Anthropology
Evolution
History
Cognate
Rice
url 1000295