Language Dispersal Beyond FarmingMartine Robbeets, Alexander Savelyev Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. In this volume, their proposal is reassessed by linguists, investigating to what extent the economic dependence on plant cultivation really impacted language spread in various parts of the world. Special attention is paid to "tricky" language families such as Eskimo-Aleut, Quechua, Aymara, Bantu, Indo-European, Transeurasian, Turkic, Japano-Koreanic, Hmong-Mien and Trans-New Guinea, that cannot unequivocally be regarded as instances of Farming/Language Dispersal, even if subsistence played a role in their expansion. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Subsistence terms in Unangam Tunuu Aleut | 47 |
Chapter 4 Lexical recycling as a lens onto shared JapanoKoreanic agriculture | 75 |
Chapter 5 The language of the Transeurasian farmers | 93 |
Farmingrelated terms in ProtoTurkic and ProtoAltaic | 123 |
A consideration | 155 |
The domestications and the domesticators of Asian rice | 183 |
Problems and perspectives | 215 |
Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence | 235 |
Expanding the methodology of lexical examination in the investigation of the intersection of early agricultu | 259 |
Chapter 12 Agricultural terms in IndoIranian | 275 |
Chapter 13 Milk and the IndoEuropeans | 291 |
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Africa Afroasiatic agricultural lexicon agricultural vocabulary Altaic Alutiiq ancestral archaeological Asian attested Austroasiatic Aymaran languages Bantu Expansion Bantu languages barley Bashk Bergsland borrowing Bostoen broomcorn millet cognates crops cultivars cultivation cultural derived domains domestication Driem Dybo early Eskimo Eskimo-Aleut etymology evidence expansion farming Farming/Language Dispersal genetic grain haplogroup Hmong-Mien homeland Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Japanese Japano-Koreanic Karakh KBalk Kikongo Language Kirgh KKalp Koni Muluwa Korean language family lexical milk millet Mongolic MTurk Nogh Nostratic noun origin OTurk Papuan pastoralist phonological population prehistoric proposed Proto Proto-Altaic Proto-Aymara Proto-Indo-European proto-language Proto-Quechua proto-Transeurasian Proto-Turkic Proto-West-Coastal Bantu Quechuan and Aymaran reconstructed reflexes rice agriculture rice plant Robbeets root Sagart semantic spread Starostin subsistence suffix taro terminology Trans-New Guinea Trans-New Guinea languages Transeurasian Tungusic Turkic Turkm Unangam Tunuu verb West-Coastal Bantu words Xiongnu Yangtze