Chapter 1
Farming/Language Dispersal
Food for thought
Article outline
- 1.Agriculture-driven language spread
- 2.Data and questions
- 3.Methods
- 3.1The diversity hotspot principle
- 3.2Phylolinguistics
- 3.3Mapping demographic dispersal on linguistic phylogeny
- 3.4Cultural reconstruction
- 3.4.1The accuracy of semantic reconstruction
- 3.4.2Lexical recycling
- 3.4.3The deception of a single item
- 3.4.4The shakiness of inferences made on the basis of absence
- 3.5Contact linguistics
- 3.5.1The distinction between borrowing and inheritance
- 3.5.2The directionality of the borrowing
- 4.Organization of this volume
- 5.Findings
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Note
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References