Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; Robert M. W. Dixon

ISBN 10: 0198299818 / ISBN 13: 9780198299813

Published by OUP Oxford, 2002

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: Este libro explora cómo y por qué las formas y significados de diferentes lenguas pueden parecerse en distintos momentos. Los editores y autores buscan explicar e identificar la relación entre la difusión areal y el desarrollo genético de las lenguas, así como descubrir los medios para distinguir qué causa que una lengua comparta características con otra. Los capítulos abarcan desde la antigua Anatolia hasta la Amazonía, incluyendo Australia, Oceanía, el sudeste y el este de Asia, y el África subsahariana. Se incluye la visión de un arqueólogo sobre la evidencia material que explica el cambio cultural y lingüístico, y una discusión general sobre qué tipos de características lingüísticas pueden o no ser prestadas. EAN: 9780198299813 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencias Título: Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Autor: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald| Robert M. W. Dixon Editorial: OUP Oxford Idioma: en Páginas: 472 Formato: tapa dura.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198299818
• ISBN 13: 9780198299813
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and authors aim to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and to discover the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another.

About the Author

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor of Lingusitics, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University. She worked in the North Africa and Middle East section of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and was then Professor of Linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina in Brazil before coming to Australia in 1994. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, grammars of Modern and Biblical Hebrew. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare, Warekena, and Tariana, in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Professor R. M. W. Dixon is Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University. He has written grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiny), published one survey volume ('The Languages of Australia', 1980), and is currently working on a comprehensive areal study of all 247 languages of the continent. For the past nine years he has been working in the southern Amazonian jungle of Brazil, writing a grammar of Jarawara, and pursuing a comparative study of the Arawa language family.