Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of LanguagesPeter Forster, Colin Renfrew McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006 - 198 Seiten Evolutionary ('phylogenetic') trees were first used to infer lost histories nearly two centuries ago by manuscript scholars reconstructing original texts. Today, computer methods are enabling phylogenetic trees to transform genetics, historical linguistics and even the archaeological study of artefact shapes and styles. But which phylogenetic methods are best suited to retracing the evolution of languages? And which types of language data are most informative about deep prehistory? In this book, leading specialists engage with these key questions. Essential reading for linguists, geneticists and archaeologists, these studies demonstrate how phylogenetic tools are illuminating previously intractable questions about language prehistory. This innovative volume arose from a conference of linguists, geneticists and archaeologists held at Cambridge in 2004. |
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... Greek dialects , including Arcado - Cyprian , that are not found in Mycenaean . Before the decipherment of Linear B such changes were assumed to be Proto - Greek , but now it is clear that they reflect areal diffusion across the Greek ...
... Greek dialects , including Arcado - Cyprian , that are not found in Mycenaean . Before the decipherment of Linear B such changes were assumed to be Proto - Greek , but now it is clear that they reflect areal diffusion across the Greek ...
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... Greek changes conspired to demarcate word ends : the accentual Dreimorengesetz , the loss of final stops , and the merger of the nasals . I would extend this ap- proach , and suggest that it is an organizing feature of a number of Greek ...
... Greek changes conspired to demarcate word ends : the accentual Dreimorengesetz , the loss of final stops , and the merger of the nasals . I would extend this ap- proach , and suggest that it is an organizing feature of a number of Greek ...
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... Greek as such : a coherent IE dialect , spoken by some IE speech community , ances- tral to all the later Greek dialects . It is just as likely that Greek was formed by the coalescence of dialects that originally formed part of a ...
... Greek as such : a coherent IE dialect , spoken by some IE speech community , ances- tral to all the later Greek dialects . It is just as likely that Greek was formed by the coalescence of dialects that originally formed part of a ...
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ead25mole bio cam ac | 6 |
Malagasy Language as a Guide to Understanding Malagasy History | 11 |
Rapid Radiation Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages | 19 |
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