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Linguistic evolution / Merritt Ruhlen.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Ruhlen, Merritt, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Evolution (Biology).
Evolution (Biology)--History.
Physical Description:
1 videorecording (40 min., 01 sec.) : sound, color
Place of Publication:
London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2007.
System Details:
video file
Summary:
Audio-visual presentation : Discovery of comparative linguistics ; The Indo-Hittite family ; Fundamentals of linguistic taxonomy ; Alfredo Trombetti ; The Eurasiatic language family ; African language families ; The Dene-Caucasian family ; The Amerind language family ; Monogenesis ; Origin and evolution of word order ; Linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence for human migrations.
Contents:
Introduction
Sir William Jones - picture
Sir William Jones, 1786
An Indo-European paradigm
The Indo-Hittite family (1)
The Indo-Hittite family (2)
The word "hand" in different languages
A more complex example
Possible explanations for linguistic similarities
Classifying languges by basic vocabulary (1)
Classifying languges by basic vocabulary (2)
The Indo-Hittite family (3)
Italian linquist - Alfredo Trombetti
Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (1)
Distribution of the pronouns M 'I' - T 'you'
The Eurasiatic family
The Uralic-Yukaghir family
The Altaic family
The Eskimo-Aleut family
Eurasiatic grammatical cognates
Eurasiatic lexical cognates
African language families
The Afro-Asiatic family
The Nilo-Saharan family
The Niger-Kordofanian family
The Khoisan family
The Dene-Caucasian family
Alfredo Trombetti in 1923 and 1925
Dene-Caucasian cognates
The Na-Dene family
Yeniseian-Na-Dene cognates
Language in the Americas
Language families in the Americas
Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (2)
Distribution of the pronouns N 'I' - M 'you'
Ameren T'ana-T'ina-T'una ('child-son-daughter')
Ameren T'ina ('brother, son')
Ameren T'una ('sister, daughter')
Ameren T'ana ('child, sibling')
The Kartvelian family
The Dravidian family
The Austric family
The Indo-Pacific family
The Australian family
Language families of the world
Alfredo Trombetti, 1905 (3)
Tik ('finger, one')
Tik ('finger, one') - geographic distribution
Pal ('two')
Pal ('two') - geographic distribution
Akwa ('water')
Akwa ('water') - geographic distribution
Genetic linguistics versus typology
The six possible word orders
Subject-object-verb
Distribution of word order in Indo-Hittite
Distribution of word order in Afro-Asiatic
Evolution of word order - simple model
Evolution of word order - more complex model
Evolution of word order - full model
The out-of-Africa migration, 50,000 BP
The migration to the Americas, 13,500 BP
The Ameren migration
Final remarks - Charles Darwin (1859).
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Retrieved April 13, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/305/.

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