Linguistic Fossils: Studies in Historical Linguistics and Paleolinguistics - Softcover

Bengtson, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986510270 ISBN 13: 9780986510274

Publisher: Theophania Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The articles in this book represent a large part of Mr. Bengtson's work in historical linguistics and paleolinguistics over the past few years. The first two articles concern the worldwide picture of a human language family: global etymologies. The third is a brief summary of Mr. Bengtson's current view of the Austric macrofamily. The next six articles are concerned with the so called "isolates," Basque and Burushaski, and Mr. Bengtson's view that they are just members of a larger macrofamily, Dene-Caucasian. The two essays with titles beginning "The Problem of 'Isolates'..." approach the issues in a narrative,minimally technical style, while the other four papers are more detail-oriented and technical. The last two articles concentrate on the Na-Dene family, which Mr. Bengtson's considers an integral part of Dene-Caucasian. It hardly needs saying that much of the content of this book is out of the mainstream of historical linguistic work.

About this title

About the Author:

John D. Bengtson is an historical and anthropological linguist. He is past president and currently vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, and has served as editor of the journal Mother Tongue (1996-2003 and 2007-). He has also been a participant in the Evolution of Human Language Project, sponsored by Murray Gell-Mann and the Santa Fe Institute (2001- ).

About this edition

• Publisher: Theophania Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0986510270
• ISBN 13: 9780986510274
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236