This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.
This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.
Asya Pereltsvaig is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, California, where she teaches courses in syntax, general and historical linguistics, and languages of the world. Her main area of specialization is the syntax of Indo-European, Semitic, and Turkic languages. She is the author of Copular Sentences in Russian: A Theory of Intra-Clausal Relations (2007) and Languages of the World: An Introduction (2012).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: the Indo-European debate and why it matters Part I. The Vexatious History of Indo-European Studies: 1. Ideology and interpretation from the 1700s to the 1970s 2. Anatolia vs the Steppes Part II. The Failings of the Bayesian Phylogenetic Research Program: 3. What theory we want and what theory we get 4. Linguistic fallacies of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 5. Dating problems of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 6. The historical-geographical failure of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 7. Unwarranted assumptions Part III. Searching for Indo-European Origins: 8. Why linguists don't do dates? Or do they? 9. Triangulating the Indo-European homeland 10. The non-mystery of Indo-European expansion 11. Whither historical linguistics? Conclusion: what is at stake in the Indo-European debate.
Introduction: the Indo-European debate and why it matters Part I. The Vexatious History of Indo-European Studies: 1. Ideology and interpretation from the 1700s to the 1970s 2. Anatolia vs the Steppes Part II. The Failings of the Bayesian Phylogenetic Research Program: 3. What theory we want and what theory we get 4. Linguistic fallacies of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 5. Dating problems of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 6. The historical-geographical failure of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 7. Unwarranted assumptions Part III. Searching for Indo-European Origins: 8. Why linguists don't do dates? Or do they? 9. Triangulating the Indo-European homeland 10. The non-mystery of Indo-European expansion 11. Whither historical linguistics? Conclusion: what is at stake in the Indo-European debate.
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