The Rise and Fall of Languages

Informationen zum Autor Reinhard Michl 1948 in Hausen bei Kehlheim geboren. Studium an der Kunstakademiein München! beginnt schon früh für Verlage zu arbeiten. Die Verlagswelt wurde schnell aufmerksam auf seinen unbestechlichenAnspruch an das eigene Können. Inzwischen sind über zwanzig Bücher mit seinen Illustrationenerschienen. Klappentext A different approach to the theories on language evolution and change. Zusammenfassung Professor Dixon challenges many of the views held by linguists! archaeologists and geneticists about the origins and development of human language! notably those concerning the usefulness of the 'family tree' model of language relationships and the speculation concerning the reconstruction of a 'proto-language'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Linguistic Areas and Diffusion; 4. The Family Tree Model; 5. Modes of change; 6. The Punctuated Equilibrium Model; 7. More on proto-languages; 8. Recent history; 9. Today's priorities; 10. Summary and prospects; Appendix - where the comparative method discovery procedure fails; References; Index.

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• Autori: R. M. W. Dixon, R. M. W. (La Trobe University Dixon, Robert M. W. Dixon, Robert M.W. Dixon
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.12.1997
• EAN: 9780521626545
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62654-5
• Dimensioni: 125 mm x 204 mm x 11 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie