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Lädt ... The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (2015. Auflage)von Asya Pereltsvaig (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A vigorously argued critique of the so-called Bayesian phylogenetic model of the origin, differentiation, and spread of the Indo-European languages, which was developed mainly by 'Gray and Atkinson' and published in Science magazine. The authors protest that many of the assumptions of the model are questionable, the time-line and dates come out completely at variance from facts known from other lines of evidence and reasoning, and that the whole approach of the Bayesian methods of constructing language rtrees is questionable. The authors recommend falling back on recognized sources from old documents, archaeology, history and the analyses of the languages that historical linguists have been doing for over two centuries. The authors find evidence for the Anatolian origin (i.e Asia Minor or present-day Turkey) as less compelling than the 'modified steppe hypothesis' that places the centre of origin in the Pontic area (between or north of the Baltic Sea and Caspian Sea) that draws on considerable evidence from archaeological sites in the southern margins of Russia and Central Europe. The story is an absorbing and sometimes passionately contested one, especially in the Indian context, where the biggest question is whether the dominant Indian culture, Hindu, and the sacred language Sanskrit (and its daughter languages, the Indo-Aryan languages) are indigenous (autochthonous), or whether they were brought in along with the Indo-Aryan people themselves in some millenium BC. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of the diffusion of viruses. Using these techniques, researchers claim to have located the origin of the Indo-European language family in Neolithic Anatolia, challenging the near-consensus view that it emerged in the grasslands north of the Black Sea thousands of years later. But despite its widespread celebration in the global media, this new approach fails to withstand scrutiny. As languages do not evolve like biological species and do not spread like viruses, the model produces incoherent results, contradicted by the empirical record at every turn. This book asserts that the origin and spread of languages must be examined primarily through the time-tested techniques of linguistic analysis, rather than those of evolutionary biology. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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