Language relations across Bering Strait : reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence / / Michael Fortescue
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| Autore: |
Fortescue Michael D.
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| Titolo: |
Language relations across Bering Strait : reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence / / Michael Fortescue
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Cassell, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 497/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Eskimo languages - Morphology |
| Aleut language - Morphology | |
| Languages in contact - Russia (Federation) - Siberia | |
| Uralic peoples - Antiquities | |
| Uralic languages - Morphology | |
| Languages in contact - Bering Strait | |
| Languages in contact - Alaska | |
| Eskimos - Antiquities | |
| Aleuts - Antiquities | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-251) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Hypotheses concerning the internal and external relations between 'Paleo-Siberian' languages; 3. A typological overview of the region; 4. The reconstruction of common Eskimo-Aleut and Chukotko-Kamchatkan core morphology; 5. Drawing Uralo-Yukagir morphology into the picture; 6. Lexical correspondences between Uralo-Siberian languages; 7. Who could have spoken Proto-Uralo-Siberian-and where?; 8. Linguistic layering around the bottleneck: from Beringia to the Diomede Islands; References; Maps; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 languag |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Language relations across Bering Strait |
| ISBN: | 1-281-29148-X |
| 9786611291488 | |
| 1-84714-164-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451304303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Open Linguistics