Indo-european controversy, the: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics
Auteur :
Pereltsvaig, Asya / Lewis, Martin W.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107054530
Date de publication :
30 avr. 2015
Dimensions :
23,7 x 15,9 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
640 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The global media recently announced that the mysteries surrounding the Indo-European languages had been solved by evolutionary biologists using cutting-edge computational techniques. 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.