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History and the testimony of language [[electronic resource] /] / Christopher Ehret



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Autore: Ehret Christopher Visualizza persona
Titolo: History and the testimony of language [[electronic resource] /] / Christopher Ehret Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina: 907.2
Soggetto topico: History - Methodology
Language and history
Social history
Soggetto geografico: Africa History
Soggetto non controllato: africa
african classical age
african history
african languages
african linguistics
easy to read
engaging
historians
historical linguists
historical studies
historical study
historical
historiography
history of languages
history scholars
history
language and grammar
language phyla
language
linguistic history
linguistics
nonfiction guide
nonfiction
oral histories
political
power of language
world history
world languages
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 area of the world.
Titolo autorizzato: History and the testimony of language  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27732-8
9786613277329
0-520-94759-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822682003321
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Serie: California world history library ; ; 16.