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Language relations across Bering Strait : reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence / Michael Fortescue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fortescue, Michael D., author.
- Series:
- Open Linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eskimo languages--Morphology.
- Eskimo languages.
- Aleut language--Morphology.
- Aleut language.
- Languages in contact--Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
- Languages in contact.
- Uralic peoples--Antiquities.
- Uralic peoples.
- Uralic languages--Morphology.
- Uralic languages.
- Languages in contact--Bering Strait.
- Languages in contact--Alaska.
- Eskimos--Antiquities.
- Eskimos.
- Aleuts--Antiquities.
- Aleuts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Cassell, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sineria, this book touches upon a number of issues in contemporary historical linguistics and archaeology. The Arctic ""gateway"" to the New World, by acting as a bottleneck, has allowed only small groups of mobile hunter-gatherers through during specific propitious periods, and thus provides a unique testing ground for theories about population and language movements in pre-agricultural times. Owing to the historically attested prevalence of languag
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Hypotheses concerning the internal and external relations between 'Paleo-Siberian' languages
- A typological overview of the region
- The reconstruction of common Eskimo-Aleut and Chukotko-Kamchatkan core morphology
- Drawing Uralo-Yukagir morphology into the picture
- Lexical correspondences between Uralo-Siberian languages
- Who could have spoken Proto-Uralo-Siberian-and where?
- Linguistic layering around the bottleneck: from Beringia to the Diomede Islands.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-251) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611291488
- 9781281291486
- 128129148X
- 9781847141644
- 1847141641
- OCLC:
- 437129334
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