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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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>
> > Thefore, "one must independently know
> > the history of population movements and contacts among speakers of the
> > relevant languages" before comparative method can be applied.
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> That is irrelevant to this:
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> > The
> > comparative method cannot be used as evidence for population
> > movements.
>
> Yes it can.
>
>
> Torsten
Refer to:
Aikhenwald, A. Y., & Dixon, R. M. W. (Eds.). (2001). Areal diffusion and
genetic inheritance: Case studies in language change. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
A cheaper paperback 2006 edition is now available on Barnes and Noble.
The third chapter is titled:
"3 An Indo-European Linguistic Area and its Characteristics: Ancient
Anatolia. Areal Diffusion as a Challenge to the Comparative Method? 44"
Take up the challenge Mr. Tortsen!
M. Kelkar
"Synopsis
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different
languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and
authors aim to explain and identify the relationship between areal
diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and to discover
the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the
characteristics of another. "
TOC
Table of Contents
Preface
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction 1
2 Archaeology and the Historical Determinants of Punctuation in
Language-Family Origins 27
3 An Indo-European Linguistic Area and its Characteristics: Ancient
Anatolia. Areal Diffusion as a Challenge to the Comparative Method? 44
4 The Australian Linguistic Area 64
5 Descent and Diffusion: The Complexity of the Pilbara Situation 105
6 Contact-Induced Change in Oceanic Languages in North-West Melanesia 134
7 Areal Diffusion, Genetic Inheritance, and Problems of Subgrouping: A
North Arawak Case Study 167
8 Linguistic Diffusion in Present-Day East Anatolia: From Top to
Bottom 195
9 The Role of Migration and Language Contact in the Development of the
Sino-Tibetan Language Family 225
10 On Genetic and Areal Linguistics in Mainland South-East Asia:
Parallel Polyfunctionality of 'acquire' 255
11 Genetic versus Contact Relationship: Prosodic Diffusibility in
South-East Asian Languages 291
12 Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages 328
13 Areal Diffusion versus Genetic Inheritance: An African Perspective 358
14 Convergence and Divergence in the Development of African Languages 393
15 What Language Features Can Be 'Borrowed'? 412
Index of authors 437
Index of languages and language families 443
Subject index 451