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The Indo-European Controversy - Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (Hardcover)
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The Indo-European Controversy - Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (Hardcover)
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Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative
evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical
linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical
analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the
spread of languages in terms of the diffusion of viruses. Using
these techniques, researchers claim to have located the origin of
the Indo-European language family in Neolithic Anatolia,
challenging the near-consensus view that it emerged in the
grasslands north of the Black Sea thousands of years later. But
despite its widespread celebration in the global media, this new
approach fails to withstand scrutiny. As languages do not evolve
like biological species and do not spread like viruses, the model
produces incoherent results, contradicted by the empirical record
at every turn. This book asserts that the origin and spread of
languages must be examined primarily through the time-tested
techniques of linguistic analysis, rather than those of
evolutionary biology.
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