Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth ... 2001 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
ISBN-13:
9781588113795
ISBN-10:
1588113795
Author:
Henning Andersen
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format:
Hardcover
301 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781588113795
ISBN-10:
1588113795
Author:
Henning Andersen
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format:
Hardcover
301 pages
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Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth ... 2001 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) (ISBN-13: 9781588113795 and ISBN-10: 1588113795), written by authors
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Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy ― the systematic study of such layers ― may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural contacts in the past. In this volume are discussed past problems and current advances in the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, Japanese, and Meso-American languages.
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