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This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages
have spread across the globe: why do we find large language
families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while
elsewhere we find clusters of very small families or language
isolates? What roles have agriculture, geography, climate, ethnic
identity, and language ideologies played in language spread? In
this volume, international experts in the field provide new answers
to these and related questions, drawing on the increasingly large
databases available and on novel analytical research techniques.
The first part of the volume outlines some general issues and
approaches in the study of language dispersal, diversification, and
contact. In the rest of the volume, chapters compare the language
and population histories of three major regions - Island Southeast
Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America - which show particularly
interesting contrasts in the distribution of languages and language
families. The volume is interdisciplinary in approach, with
insights from archaeology, genetics, anthropology, and geography,
and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in
language diversity and contact.
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