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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457291003321

Titolo

Language contacts in prehistory [[electronic resource] ] : studies in stratigraphy / / edited by Henning Andersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2003

ISBN

1-283-31211-5

9786613312112

90-272-7530-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 239

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersenHenning <1934->

Disciplina

417/.7

Soggetti

Historical linguistics

Languages in contact

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Papers from the workshop on linguistic stratigraphy and prehistory of the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001."--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

LANGUAGE CONTACTS IN PREHISTORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; STRATUM AND SHADOWA GENEALOGY OF STRATIGRAPHY THEORIES FROM THE INDO-EUROPEAN WEST; SLAVIC AND THE INDO-EUROPEAN MIGRATIONS; THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERFECT IN INDO-EUROPEANSTRATIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF PREHISTORIC AREAL INFLUENCE; STRATIGRAPHY IN AFRICAN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; STRATIGRAPHY AND PREHISTORY: BANTU ZONE F; LANGUAGE CONTACTS IN NILO-SAHARAN PREHISTORY; EVIDENCEFOR AUSTROASIATIC STRATA IN THAI

MILLERS AND MULLERSTHE ARCHAEO-LINGUISTIC STRATIGRAPHY OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN HOLOCENE AUSTRALIALOANWORD STRATA IN ROTUMAN; SUBSTRATUM AND ADSTRATUM IN PREHISTORIC JAPANESE; UTO-AZTECAN IN THE LINGUISTIC STRATIGRAPHY OF MESOAMERICAN PREHISTORY; LANGUAGE INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for



periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy - the systematic study of such layers - may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural co