Alexander Savelyev

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexander Savelyev is involved.

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Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev

Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of… read more

[Not in series, 215] 2017. xiii, 324 pp. | open access

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Savelyev, Alexander 2017 Chapter 6. Farming-related terms in Proto-Turkic and Proto-Altaic Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 123–154 | Chapter

Historical sources from different times describe Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic traditional economies as based on pastoralism, with agriculture playing only a minor role among their subsistence strategies. Cultural reconstruction as used by historical linguists may provide additional inferences… read more