Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis
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 domesticati…
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Weitere Autoren: Renfrew, A. Colin
- ISBN: 978-1-902937-20-5
- EAN: 9781902937205
- Produktnummer: 18759147
- Verlag: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 520 S.
- Masse: H28.9 cm x B22.3 cm x D3.2 cm 1'804 g
- Abbildungen: 88 figs, 21 tables
- Gewicht: 1804
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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