Language Relations across Bering Strait

Reappraising the Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence

Libro de Michael Fortescue (1998)

Contenido:

1. Introduction
2. Hypotheses concerning the internal and external relations between 'Paleo-Siberian' languages
3. A typological overview of the region
4. The reconstruction of common Eskimo-Aleut and Chukotko-Kamchatkan core morphology
5. Drawing Uralo-Yukagir morphology into the picture
6. Lexical correspondences between Uralo-Siberian languages
7. Who could have spoken Proto-Uralo-Siberian - and where?
8. Linguistic layering around the bottleneck: from Beringia to the Diomede Islands