In hot pursuit of language in prehistory : essays in the four fields of anthropology : in honor of Harold Crane Fleming /

In hot pursuit of language in prehistory : essays in the four fields of anthropology : in honor of Harold Crane Fleming /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 476 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:English
Subject:
Comparative linguistics.
Language and languages -- Origin.
Human beings -- Origin.
Comparative linguistics.
Human beings -- Origin.
Language and languages -- Origin.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187131
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Other authors / contributors:Bengtson, John D.
Fleming, Harold Crane, 1926-
ISBN:9789027289858
9027289859
9789027232526
9027232520
1282104632
9781282104631
9786612104633
6612104635
Notes:"Works of Harold Crane Fleming": pages [xix]-xxiv.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
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Summary:Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming's major focus on language -- he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue -- the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming's extensive fie.
Other form:Print version: In hot pursuit of language in prehistory. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008 9789027232526 9027232520
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Foreword
  • 2. Acknowledgments
  • 3. Photographs
  • 4. Works of Harold Crane Fleming
  • 5. Part I. African peoples
  • 6. Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography
  • 7. A\dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV
  • 8. African weeks
  • 9. Part II. African languages - synchronic studies
  • 10. Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla
  • 11. Riddling in Gidole
  • 12. Part III. African languages - Classification and prehistory
  • 13. Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages
  • 14. The\primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules
  • 15. Erosion in Chadic
  • 16. On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages
  • 17. The\problem of pan-African roots
  • 18. Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas
  • 19. Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers
  • 20. Some Old World experience of linguistic dating
  • 21. The\languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation
  • 22. Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia
  • 23. Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific
  • 24. Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary?
  • 25. Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies
  • 26. Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language
  • 27. Current topics in human evolutionary genetics
  • 28. A\wild 50,000-year ride
  • 29. Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language?
  • 30. The\origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism
  • 31. Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution
  • 32. The\age of Mama and Papa
  • 33. The\millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals
  • 34. General index
  • 35. Index of languages and languages families
  • 36. Index of scholars discussed

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