03593nam 2200769 450 991078481930332120230706224020.0128129148X97866112914881847141641(electronic bk.)9781847141644(electronic bk.)(CKB)1000000000410140(EBL)436455(OCoLC)437129334(OCoLC)893334195(SSID)ssj0000189107(PQKBManifestationID)11180681(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189107(PQKBWorkID)10155869(PQKB)10225159(MiAaPQ)EBC436455(Au-PeEL)EBL436455(CaONFJC)MIL129148(EXLCZ)99100000000041014020181010d1998 uy 0engurcn#---unuuntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLanguage relations across Bering Strait reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence /Michael FortescueLondon ;New York :Cassell,1998.1 online resource (316 pages)Open Linguistics0-304-70330-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-251) and index.Introduction --Hypotheses concerning the internal and external relations between 'Paleo-Siberian' languages --A typological overview of the region --The reconstruction of common Eskimo-Aleut and Chukotko-Kamchatkan core morphology --Drawing Uralo-Yukagir morphology into the picture --Lexical correspondences between Uralo-Siberian languages --Who could have spoken Proto-Uralo-Siberian-and where? --Linguistic layering around the bottleneck: from Beringia to the Diomede Islands.In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sineria, this book touches upon a number of issues in contemporary historical linguistics and archaeology. The Arctic ""gateway"" to the New World, by acting as a bottleneck, has allowed only small groups of mobile hunter-gatherers through during specific propitious periods, and thus provides a unique testing ground for theories about population and language movements in pre-agricultural times. Owing to the historically attested prevalence of languagOpen LinguisticsEskimo languagesMorphologyAleut languageMorphologyLanguages in contactRussia (Federation)SiberiaUralic peoplesAntiquitiesUralic languagesMorphologyLanguages in contactBering StraitLanguages in contactAlaskaEskimosAntiquitiesAleutsAntiquitiesEskimo-Aleutwikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25946Eskimo languagesMorphology.Aleut languageMorphology.Languages in contactUralic peoplesAntiquities.Uralic languagesMorphology.Languages in contactLanguages in contactEskimosAntiquities.AleutsAntiquities.Eskimo-Aleut.497/.1Fortescue Michael D.662476MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784819303321Language relations across Bering Strait1296088UNINA