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024 7 _a10.31826/9781463244965
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781463244965
035 _a(DE-B1597)651501
035 _a(OCoLC)1380733569
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRuhlen, Merritt
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Origin of Language :
_bTracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue /
_cMerritt Ruhlen.
264 1 _aPiscataway, NJ :
_bGorgias Press,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a1 online resource (319 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aHarvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora ;
_v14
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tPreface 2010 --
_tPreface 1994 --
_tContents --
_tPrologue: What Do We Mean by the Origin of Language? --
_t1 Language and History: Voices from the Past --
_t2 Language Families: What is Known --
_t3 Controversy: What is Debated --
_t4 Native Americans: Language in the New World --
_t5 The Origin of Language: Are There Global Cognates? --
_t6 A Window on the World: What Has Been Resolved --
_t7 Genes: Biology and Language --
_t8 The Emerging Synthesis: On the Origin of Modern Humans --
_tEpilogue: Reconstruction, Sound Correspondences, and Homelands --
_tAn Annotated Bibliography --
_tAppendices --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThis book, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, originally published in 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, was written in a more popular style, accessible to an educated general audience, than the more scholarly and academic tome of a similar title, On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy, published the same year. In The Origin of Language Ruhlen laid out the principles of linguistic genetic classification, i.e., classifying languages into families according to common origins rather than typological features. Ruhlen showed how simple this can be, especially for languages that have diverged for a few millennia, by juxtaposing short lists of basic (non-cultural) words like eye, fire, and tongue. He also showed that the same methods can be used to postulate older and deeper families, often called “macro-families” or “macrophyla,” by comparing reconstructed forms from lower-level families. Such deeper families (e.g., Nostratic, Dene-Caucasian, Nilo-Saharan, Austric) are generally more controversial than lower-level families, but Ruhlen did not shy from discussing them if he thought the evidence supported them. Ruhlen was also interested in other fields of anthropology, such as archaeology and human genetics, and brought these fields into play.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aHuman evolution.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xClassification.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xOrigin.
650 4 _aAncient languages.
650 4 _aForeign Language Study.
650 4 _aGeneral.
650 7 _aFOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages (see also Latin).
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.31826/9781463244965
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463244965
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