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Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
[Not in series 215] 2017
► pp. 1–23

Chapter 1
Farming/Language Dispersal

Food for thought

| Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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
  • Note
  • References
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Published online: 21 December 2017
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