Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 July 2020
- ISBN 9780198723813
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages378 pages
- Size 240x162x25 mm
- Weight 684 g
- Language English 23
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Short description:
This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new analytical research techniques and drawing on large databases, with a focus on the language and population histories of Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Patterns of diversification and contact: Re-examining dispersal hypotheses
Part I: General approaches
Dispersal patterns shape areal typology
Sociolinguistic typology and the uniformitarian hypothesis
Geographical axis effects in large-scale linguistic distributions
Large and ancient linguistic areas
Part II: Southeast Asia and Oceania
Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania
Time, diversification, and dispersal on the Australian continent: Three enigmas of linguistic prehistory
Language diversity, geomorphological change, and population movements in the Sepik-Ramu basin of Papua New Guinea
The dynamics of human expansion and cultural diversification in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the Neolithic: An archaeological perspective
The role of contact and language shift in the spread of Austronesian languages across Island Southeast Asia
Part III: Africa
Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Africa
Language diversification and contact in Africa
The Bantu expansion: Some facts and fiction
Language isolates and the spread of pastoralism in East Africa
Part IV: South America
Patterns of dispersal and diversification in South America
Amazonian linguistic diversity and its sociocultural correlates
Cultural phylogenetics in lowland South America
