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Autore |
Ehret Christopher |
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Titolo |
History and the testimony of language [[electronic resource] /] / Christopher Ehret |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-27732-8 |
9786613277329 |
0-520-94759-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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The California world history library ; ; 16 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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History - Methodology |
Language and history |
Social history |
Africa History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. Evidence and Method -- PART TWO. Applications -- APPENDIX ONE. Outline Classification of Afrasian (Afroasiatic): diagnostic branch innovations -- APPENDIX TWO. Proto-Afrasian and Proto-Erythraic subsistence -- APPENDIX THREE. development of nilo-saharan Lexicons of Herding and Cultivation -- APPENDIX FOUR. interpreting the Ethiosemitic Cognation Matrix -- APPENDIX FIVE. Cushitic Loanwords in Ethiosemitic Core vocabulary -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poorly served by written documentation, but also to enrich our understanding of well-documented regions and eras. A leading historian as well as historical linguist of Africa, Ehret provides in-depth examples from the language phyla of Africa, arguing that his comprehensive treatment can be applied by linguistically trained historians and historical linguists working with any language and in any |
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