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Language relations across the Bering Strait : reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fortescue, Michael D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 1998.
Colección:Open linguistics series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.