Language Contacts in Prehistory
Studies in Stratigraphy
Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001
Editor
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.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 239] 2003. viii, 292 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. v
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IntroductionHenning Andersen | pp. 1–10
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Indo-European
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Stratum and shadow: A genealogy of stratigraphy theories from the Indo-European WestBernard Mees | pp. 11–44
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Slavic and the Indo-European migrationsHenning Andersen | pp. 45–76
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The development of the perfect in Indo-European: Stratigraphic evidence of prehistoric areal influenceBridget Drinka | pp. 77–105
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Africa
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Stratigraphy in African historical linguisticsChristopher Ehret | pp. 107–114
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Stratigraphy and prehistory: Bantu Zone FB.F.Y.P. Masele and Derek Nurse | pp. 115–134
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Language contacts in Nilo-Saharan prehistoryChristopher Ehret | pp. 135–157
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Southeast Asia
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Evidence for Austroasiatic strata in ThaiAnthony Diller | pp. 159–175
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Australia
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Millers and mullers: The archaeo-linguistic stratigraphy of technological change in holocene AustraliaPatrick McConvell and Michael Smith | pp. 177–200
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Oceania
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Loanword strata in RotumanHans Schmidt | pp. 201–240
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Japan
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Substratum and adstratum in prehistoric JapaneseJ. Marshall Unger | pp. 241–258
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Meso-America
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Uto-Aztecan in the linguistic stratigraphy of Mesoamerican prehistoryKaren Dakin | pp. 259–288
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Language Index | pp. 289–292
“[...] offers refreshing new approaches to the methodology of linguistic stratigraphy.”
Adam Hyllested, in Acta Linguistica, Vol. 36-2004
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General