Etyma, shouldered adzes and molecular variants

George van Driem

Etyma, shouldered adzes and molecular variants

George van Driem

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Abstract

The prospect of reconstructing lost chapters of prehistory through interdisciplinary research thrills and tantalises. The epistemological limitations of combining insights from linguistics, archaeology, palaeobotany, paleoclimatology and genetics are occasionally pointed out. In the absence of writing, potsherds do not speak any particular language, nor does any molecular variant on the genome represent an absolute marker that its bearers in prehistory spoke a language belonging to some particular linguistic phylum. The links between language and palaeobotany and between linguistics and palaeoclimatology appear to be even more tenuous.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Methods in Contemporary Linguistics
Editors	Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann, Bernhard Wälchli
Place of Publication	Berlin, Germany
Publisher	De Gruyter Mouton
Pages	335-361
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9783110275681
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Language in Time and Space (incl Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)

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