The Origin of Language : : Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue / / Merritt Ruhlen.
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Ruhlen, Merritt , author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Origin of Language : Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue / Merritt Ruhlen. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (319 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora ; 14 Frontmatter -- Preface 2010 -- Preface 1994 -- Contents -- Prologue: What Do We Mean by the Origin of Language? -- 1 Language and History: Voices from the Past -- 2 Language Families: What is Known -- 3 Controversy: What is Debated -- 4 Native Americans: Language in the New World -- 5 The Origin of Language: Are There Global Cognates? -- 6 A Window on the World: What Has Been Resolved -- 7 Genes: Biology and Language -- 8 The Emerging Synthesis: On the Origin of Modern Humans -- Epilogue: Reconstruction, Sound Correspondences, and Homelands -- An Annotated Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, originally published in 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, was written in a more popular style, accessible to an educated general audience, than the more scholarly and academic tome of a similar title, On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy, published the same year. In The Origin of Language Ruhlen laid out the principles of linguistic genetic classification, i.e., classifying languages into families according to common origins rather than typological features. Ruhlen showed how simple this can be, especially for languages that have diverged for a few millennia, by juxtaposing short lists of basic (non-cultural) words like eye, fire, and tongue. He also showed that the same methods can be used to postulate older and deeper families, often called “macro-families” or “macrophyla,” by comparing reconstructed forms from lower-level families. Such deeper families (e.g., Nostratic, Dene-Caucasian, Nilo-Saharan, Austric) are generally more controversial than lower-level families, but Ruhlen did not shy from discussing them if he thought the evidence supported them. Ruhlen was also interested in other fields of anthropology, such as archaeology and human genetics, and brought these fields into play. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Human evolution. Language and languages Classification. Language and languages Origin. Ancient languages. Foreign Language Study. General. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages (see also Latin). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2023 Part 2 9783111178042 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2023 English 9783111319162 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2023 9783111318240 ZDB-23-DSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783111024127 print 9781463244958 https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463244965 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463244965 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463244965/original |
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Frontmatter -- Preface 2010 -- Preface 1994 -- Contents -- Prologue: What Do We Mean by the Origin of Language? -- 1 Language and History: Voices from the Past -- 2 Language Families: What is Known -- 3 Controversy: What is Debated -- 4 Native Americans: Language in the New World -- 5 The Origin of Language: Are There Global Cognates? -- 6 A Window on the World: What Has Been Resolved -- 7 Genes: Biology and Language -- 8 The Emerging Synthesis: On the Origin of Modern Humans -- Epilogue: Reconstruction, Sound Correspondences, and Homelands -- An Annotated Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Preface 2010 -- Preface 1994 -- Contents -- Prologue: What Do We Mean by the Origin of Language? -- 1 Language and History: Voices from the Past -- 2 Language Families: What is Known -- 3 Controversy: What is Debated -- 4 Native Americans: Language in the New World -- 5 The Origin of Language: Are There Global Cognates? -- 6 A Window on the World: What Has Been Resolved -- 7 Genes: Biology and Language -- 8 The Emerging Synthesis: On the Origin of Modern Humans -- Epilogue: Reconstruction, Sound Correspondences, and Homelands -- An Annotated Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index |
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