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The North Through its Names: A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England
by Dave Postles
The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the 'North' of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The personal names from the north during the medieval/early modern period are linguistic phenomena, incorporating dialect speech that defined a northern consciousness, and in this ...
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Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis
edited by Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew
Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different languages spoken in the world today? Why are some, like Chinese or English, spoken by millions over vast territories, while others are restricted to just a few thousand speakers in a limited area? The farming/language dispersal hypothesis makes the radical and controversial proposal that the present-day distributions ...
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Widening Harvest: The Neolithic Transition in Europe
edited by Albert J Ammerman and Paolo Biagi
This volume brings together papers presented at a conference entitled "The Neolithic Transition in Europe: Looking Back - Looking Forward," held in Venice in 1998. Eighteen chapters by a distinguished list of academics address a range of current issues, including: the origins of agriculture; the Neolithic transition in southern, central, and northern Europe; genetic and linguistic aspects of the Neolithic; and future prospects for research and ...
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Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily
edited by Colin Renfrew and Daniel Nettle
This volume of essays examines the claim that a linguistic macrofamily can be identified which includes not only the Indo-European and Afroasiatic language families but also the Kartvelian, Uralic,Altaic and Dravidian families. The Nostratic case was put by Aharon Dolgopolsky in his The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguitic Palaeontology, and it is here evaluated critically by linguists specialising in the language families concerned. ...
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Essays on de Soldanis: Journal of Maltese Studies, No. 27
edited by Olvin Vella
In recent years, some historians specialising in the eighteenth century have published insightful works on the role played by the Maltese literati during this period and they are all in agreement that de Soldanis deserves much more importance than has ever been accorded to himi. Although his linguistic input has long been recognised, especially through the effort of the late Joseph Cassar Pullicino, the monumental figure of Mikiel Anton Vassalli ...
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Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B. Gragg
edited by Cynthia L Miller
Professor Gene B Gragg's unbounded intellectual curiosity and rigorous linguistic method have served as a bridge between the often disparate fields of Semitic philology and linguistics, between the various sub-disciplines that study the ancient Near East, between the study of ancient languages by means of scribal corpora and modern languages by means of language helpers, and between users and developers of computer programs for linguistic and ...
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Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization
by Barry B. Powell
This volume offers a coherent system of terms and categories for the complex phenomena in the world's writing systems. The author explores writing not tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond. The book examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia, the relations of these systems to Egyptian, Chinese and Mesoamerican writing, the origins of purely phonographic writing systems, and the mystery of ...
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Maltese and Other Languages: A Linguistic History of Malta
by Joseph M. Brincat
Throughout the ages, the Maltese language has undergone a series of internal changes as well as modifications and accretions caused by various external forces. As a result the Maltese language has been shaped by its inhabitants' interactions with all the peoples who, throughout the centuries, have landed on the islands to govern it or establish colonies there. The population of the Maltese islands has multiplied in the past one thousand years, ...
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The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
edited by Richard K. Larson, Viviane Deprez and Hiroko Yamakido
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary ...
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Medieval Multilingualism: The Francophone World and Its Neighbours
edited by Christopher Kleinheinz and Keith Busby
This volume contains essays on various aspects of multilingualism in medieval France, Italy, England, and the Low Countries. The fifteen contributions discuss the use of the different vernaculars and Latin in both literary and non-literary contexts, showing how cultural and social factors determined the choice of language for a particular purpose or type of text. The role of French in non-French contexts is a major theme of these essays: in the ...
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