ISBN:
9789027289858
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (500 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory : Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming's major focus on language - he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue - the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming's extensive fie
Description / Table of Contents:
In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Photo graphs; Works of Harold Crane Fleming; Part 1. African peoples; Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation; A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family; African weeks; Part 2. African languages - Synchronic studies; Gender distinction and affirmative Copula clauses in Zargulla; Riddling in Gidole; Part 3. African languages - Classification andprehistory
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A lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languagesThe primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules; Erosion in Chadic; On Kunama ukunkula "elbow" and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages; The problem of pan-African roots; Part 4. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas; Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers; Some old world experience of linguistic dating; The languages of northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation; Slaying the dragon across Eurasia; Trombetti
Description / Table of Contents:
Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary?Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies; Part 5. Human origins, language origins,and Proto-Sapiens language; Current topics in human evolutionary genetics; A wild 50 00 -year ride; Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language?; The origin of language; Some speculations on the evolution of language, and on the language of evolution; The age of mama and papa; The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals
Description / Table of Contents:
General indexIndex of language and language families; Index of scholars discussed;
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Description based upon print version of record
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