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Linguistic evolution / Merritt Ruhlen.
- 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).
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Retrieved April 13, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/305/.
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