ARCHAEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE IV

Language change and cultural transformation



Libro editado por Blench y Spriggs (1999)

General introduction
Introduction
Blench y Spriggs

Part I Rethinking language classification

1The languages of Africa: macrophyla proposals and implications for archaeological interpretation
Blench
2 Elam: a bridge between Ancient Near East and Dravidian India?
Blažek
3 Language diversification in the Akoko area of Western Nigeria Chinyere
Ohiri-Aniche
4 Revising Polynesian linguistic subgrouping and its culture history implications
Marck

Part II Interpreting change

5 Celts and others: maritime contacts and linguistic change
Waddell y Conroy
6 Archaeological-linguistic correlations in the formation of retroflex typologies and correlating areal features in South Asia
Tikkanen
7 Language change in Southern Melanesia: linguistic aberrancy and genetic distance
Lynch
8 Linguistic and philological data towards a chronology of Austronesian activity in India and Sri Lanka
Mahdi