TY  - BOOK
ED  - Robbeets, Martine
ED  - Savelyev, Alexander
AB  - 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
DO  - 10.1075/z.215
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1000295
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1018159889
KW  - Language
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Theoretical
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Evolution
KW  - History
KW  - Cognate
KW  - Rice
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e3d61e07-01c4-46cc-988a-3c4dbfac32a7/9789027264640.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29648
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
PP  - Amsterdam & Philadelphia
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9789027264640; 9789027212559
TI  - Language Dispersal Beyond Farmingnull
ER  - 
