In:In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology
Edited by John D. Bengtson
[Not in series 145] 2008
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Published online: 3 December 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.145.toc
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Table of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Photographs
Works of Harold Crane Fleming
Part I. African peoples
Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography
A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV
African weeks
Part II. African languages – synchronic studies
Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla
Riddling in Gidole
Part III. African languages – Classification and prehistory
Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages
The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules
Erosion in Chadic
On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages
The problem of pan-African roots
Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas
Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers
Some Old World experience of linguistic dating
The languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation
Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia
Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific
Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary?
Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies
Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language
Current topics in human evolutionary genetics
A wild 50,000-year ride
Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language?
The origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism
Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution
The age of Mama and Papa
The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals
General index
Index of languages and languages families
Index of scholars discussed
