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Auteur(s) : Pereltsvaig, Asya (1972-....)
Lewis, Martin W. (1956-....)
Titre(s) : The Indo-European controversy [Texte imprimé] : facts and fallacies in historical linguistics / Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin W. Lewis
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2015
Description matérielle : XII-324 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : List of figures ; List of maps ; List of tables ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction:
The Indo-European debate and why it matters ; Part I. The vexatious history of Indo-European
studies. Ideology and interpretation from the 1700s to the 1970s ; Anatolia vs. the
Steppes ; Part II. The failings of the Bayesian phylogenetic research program. What
theory we want and what theory we get ; Linguistic fallacies of the Bayesian phylogenetic
model ; Dating problems of the Bayesian phylogenetic model ; The historical-geographical
failure of the Bayesian phylogenetic model ; Unwarranted assumptions ; Part III.
Searching for Indo-European origins. Why linguists don't do dates? ; or do they?
; Triangulating the Indo-European homeland ; The non-mystery of Indo-European expansion
; Whither historical linguistics? ; Conclusion: What is at stake in the Indo-European
debate.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists
has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and
phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread
of languages in terms of the diffusion of viruses. Using these techniques, researchers
claim to have located the origin of the Indo-European language family in Neolithic
Anatolia, challenging the near-consensus view that it emerged in the grasslands north
of the Black Sea thousands of years later. But despite its widespread celebration
in the global media, this new approach fails to withstand scrutiny. As languages do
not evolve like biological species and do not spread like viruses, the model produces
incoherent results, contradicted by the empirical record at every turn. 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"
Sujet(s) : Indo-européen commun (langue) -- Étude et enseignement
Indo-européen commun (langue) -- Recherche
Linguistique historique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107054530 (rel.). - ISBN 1107054532. - ISBN 9781316309223 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450330235
Notice n° :
FRBNF45033023
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)