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Nostratic : Sifting the Evidence.
The "Nostratic" hypothesis -- positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic -- has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1998.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 142. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The "Nostratic" hypothesis -- positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic -- has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the hypothesis and those who reject it have not dealt directly with one another's arguments. This volume brings together selected representatives of both sides, as well as a number of agnostic historical linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant gen |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275714 9027275718 1283312336 9781283312332 9786613312334 6613312339 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |