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- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- 19 Primitivism in Hunter and Gatherer Languages
- 20 Language Shift in the Subarctic and Central Plains
- 21 Uto-Aztecan Hunter-Gatherers
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
20 - Language Shift in the Subarctic and Central Plains
from Part VI - North America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- 19 Primitivism in Hunter and Gatherer Languages
- 20 Language Shift in the Subarctic and Central Plains
- 21 Uto-Aztecan Hunter-Gatherers
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
In much of the study of the phenomenon of language spread the focus has been on attempting to explain the distribution of languages at a particular attested time in history based on events in the remote and largely historically unattested past based on inferences from archeological data alone. In recent work the present author and Johanna Nichols have been developing a broad-based approach to explaining language distribution by focusing first on language spreads attested within the historical period to inform our theorizing about spreads that took place in prehistory.
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- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers , pp. 552 - 576Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020