Archaeology and Language IV

Language Change and Cultural Transformation

Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-00682-9 (ISBN)

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This volume provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative.

Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.

Roger Blench is a Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, London. Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Chapter 1a General introduction, ROGER BLENCH, MATTHEW SPRIGGS; Chapter 2a Introduction, ROGER BLENCH, MATTHEW SPRIGGS; Part I RETHINKING LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION; Chapter 1 The languages of Africa: macrophyla proposals and implications for archaeological interpretation, ROGER BLENCH; Chapter 2 Elam: a bridge between Ancient Near East and Dravidian India?, VÁCLAV BLA ŽEK; Chapter 3 Language diversification in the Akoko area of Western Nigeria, CHINYERE OHIRI-ANICHE; Chapter 4 Revising Polynesian linguistic subgrouping and its culture history implications, JEFF MARCK; Part II INTERPRETING CHANGE; Chapter 5 Celts and others: maritime contacts and linguistic change, JOHN WADDELL, JANE CONROY; Chapter 6 Archaeological-linguistic correlations in the formation of retroflex typologies and correlating areal features in South Asia, BERTIL TIKKANEN; Chapter 7 Language change in Southern Melanesia: linguistic aberrancy and genetic distance, JOHN LYNCH; Chapter 8 Linguistic and philological data towards a chronology of Austronesian activity in India and Sri Lanka, WARUNO MAHDI;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2014
Reihe/Serie	One World Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	25 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-00682-3 / 1138006823
ISBN-13	978-1-138-00682-9 / 9781138006829
Zustand	Neuware