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Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (Hardcover)
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Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (Hardcover)
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
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Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging
features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different
languages spoken in the world today? Why are some, like Chinese or
English, spoken by millions over vast territories, while others are
restricted to just a few thousand speakers in a limited area? The
farming/language dispersal hypothesis makes the radical and
controversial proposal that the present-day distributions of many
of the world's languages and language families can be traced back
to the early developments and dispersals of farming from the
several nuclear areas where animal and plant domestication emerged.
For instance, the Indo-European and Austronesian language families
may owe their current vast distributions to the spread of food
plants and of farmers (speaking the relevant proto-language)
following the Neolithic revolutions which took place in the Near
East and in Eastern Asia respectively, thousands of years ago. In
this challenging book, international experts in historical
linguistics, prehistoric archaeology, molecular genetics and human
ecology bring their specialisms to bear upon this intractable
problem, using a range of interdisciplinary approaches. There are
signs that a new synthesis between these fields may now be
emerging. This path-breaking volume opens new perspectives and
indicates some of the directions which future research is likely to
follow.
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