Language Contacts in Prehistory

Name: Language Contacts in Prehistory | Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001
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Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001

Henning Andersen(Editor)

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LANGUAGE CONTACTS IN PREHISTORY
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
PREFACE
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
0. Preamble
1.0 Strata, stratification, and stratigraphy
1.1 Strata
1.2 Stratigraphy
1.3 Diagrams
2. Language contact in prehistory
2.1 Borrowings and intrusions
2.2 Typologies of contact changes
3. The issue of epistemology
STRATUM AND SHADOWA GENEALOGY OF STRATIGRAPHY THEORIES FROM THE INDO-EUROPEAN WEST
0. Introduction
1. De Jubainville and Ascoli
2. Gaulish and Romance
3. The Ligurian hypothesis
4. Celtic hegemony
5. Sigmund Feist
6. The Ligurian shadow
7. Old European
8. The hegemonic shadow
9. Feist's substratum
10. The Northwest Block
11. Conclusion
SLAVIC AND THE INDO-EUROPEAN MIGRATIONS
0. Introduction
1. The tradition of stratigraphy in comparative Slavic linguistics
1.0 Overview
1.1 Common Slavic lexical accessions in recent prehistory
1.2 Lexical affinities in the more distant past
2. Irregular phonological correspondences in Proto-Slavic
2.1 Proto-Indo-European palatals
2.2 The Ruki Change
2.3 Dual reflexes of syllabic sonorants
2.4 Word-initial laryngeals
3. Conclusions
3.1 Supporting evidence
4. The Indo-European migrations
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERFECT IN INDO-EUROPEANSTRATIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF PREHISTORIC AREAL INFLUENCE
0. Introduction: Stratigraphic analysis of Proto-Indo-European
1. Theoretical background
2. The Indo-European perfect
2.1 Semantic development
2.2 Morphosyntactic development
2.3 Development of a middle perfect
3. Conclusion
STRATIGRAPHY IN AFRICAN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
STRATIGRAPHY AND PREHISTORY: BANTU ZONE F
1. Background and problem
1.1 The general geographical, linguistic, and sociolinguistic picture
1.2 The conventional linguistic and historical interpretation
2. Database
3. Our approach
3.1 Analysis of vocabulary.
3.2 Analysis of phonological processes assumed to be innovations
3.3 A significant innovation in the tense-aspect pattern
3.4 Analysis of tonal data
4. Linguistic synthesis of Section 3
4.1 General
4.2 Stratigraphy
5. Historical synthesis
LANGUAGE CONTACTS IN NILO-SAHARAN PREHISTORY
0. Introducing the Topic
1. Sound Change Histories
2. Building a stratigraphy
3. The stratigraphy
EVIDENCEFOR AUSTROASIATIC STRATA IN THAI
1. Introduction
2. Linguistic stratigraphy in language areas
3. Linguistic interaction in Mainland Southeast Asia
4. Historical and archaeological record
5. Thai contact with Austroasiatic languages
5.1 Stage one: Xi River level (c. A.D. 1-500)
5.2 Stage two: Red River level (c. A.D. 500-1100)
5.3 Stage three: Mekhong River level (c. A.D. 1100-1350)
5.4 Stage four: Tai-Khmer bilingual level (c. A.D. 1350-1550)
5.5 Stage five: speech-level differentiation and royal language (1350-1550)
6. Residual issues
7. Conclusion
MILLERS AND MULLERSTHE ARCHAEO-LINGUISTIC STRATIGRAPHY OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN HOLOCENE AUSTRALIA
0. Introduction
1. Uses of the term linguistic stratigraphy
1.1 Strata in geology and archaeology
1.2 'Strata' in historical linguistics
1.3 The conception of linguistic stratigraphy used by Ehret
1.4 The stratigraphy of diffusion
2. Linguistic stratigraphy in Australia
2.1 Subsection terms and lenition in the northwest
3. The ethnography and archaeology of seed-grinding in Australia
3.1 Seed-grinding and desert archaeology
3.2 Types of seed-grinding implements
3.3 Ideas about origins
4. Seed-grinders and linguistic prehistory
4.1 Muller terminology
5. The stratigraphy of mara + suffix
5.1 The *r & rl change in proto-Ngumpin-Yapa
5.2 The suffix -ngu & -ng
6. Conclusions
6.1 Throwing spears and 'throwing' grass seed
LOANWORD STRATA IN ROTUMAN
1. Introduction
2. Loans from English
2.1 English or Pidgin English
2.2 The phonology of English loans
3. Contacts with neighboring languages
3.1 The Age of Discovery
3.2 The period of the Christian Mission
3.3 Fijian as a source of loanwords
4. Borrowings from Polynesian languages
4.1 Direct and indirect inheritance
4.2 Several Polynesian strata in Rotuman
4.3 Borrowings from Tongic
4.4 Borrowings from other Polynesian languages
5. Extent and semantic fields of borrowing
5.1 The extent of borrowing
5.2 Semantic fields of the loanwords
6. Conclusion
6.1 Lexical change in Rotuman
6.2 Polynesian influences on Rotuman
SUBSTRATUM AND ADSTRATUM IN PREHISTORIC JAPANESE
1. The Korean-Japanese hypothesis
2. The role of internal reconstruction
3. Lexical strata
4. Relevance
UTO-AZTECAN IN THE LINGUISTIC STRATIGRAPHY OF MESOAMERICAN PREHISTORY
0.Introduction
1. Uto-Aztecan word structure as an etymological tool
2. Calques and vultures
2.1 Nahuatl *co-.
2.2*puI*pi "face, eye
2.3 *-ra'a-wi or *-ra-wi
3. Sacred excrement, precious metal
4. Loanword evidence
4.1 Loanwords with Uto-Aztecan etymologies
4.2 Mesoamerican terms possibly coming from Nahuatl or more generally from Uto-Aztecan.
5. Conclusion
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