Mid-holocene language connections between Asia and North America / by Michael Fortescue, Edward Vajda.
| Author/creator | Fortescue, Michael D. |
| Other author | Vajda, Edward J. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] |
| Description | xiv, 531 pages : maps (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas, 1876-5580 ; volume 17 |
| Contents | Tables and Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction (Fortescue and Vajda) -- Part 1. The Uralo-Siberian Hypothesis -- 1. Overview -- 2. The Eskaleut, Uralic and Yukaghir Languages -- 2.1. Eskaleut -- 2.2. Uralic -- 2.3. Yukaghir -- 3. The History of the Hypothesis -- 4. Uralo-Siberian Cognates -- 4.1. The Basis of the Reconstructions: Sound Correspondences -- 4.2. Proto-Uralo-Siberian Stems -- 4.3. Proto-Uralo-Siberian Morphology -- 4.4. Summary -- 5. The Relationship to Chukotko-Kamchatkan -- 6. The Emergence of Ergativity in Eskaleut and Siberian Languages -- 7. Aleut Lexical Items Not Attested in Eskimoan: Evidence of a Substratum? -- \8. Sirenikski: Remnant Asian Eskimoan -- 8.1. The Position of Sirenikski within Eskimoan -- 8.2. Sirenikski Phonology and Lexicon -- 8.3. Sirenikski Morphology -- 8.4. The Idiosyncrasy of Sirenikski -- 9. Support from Archaeology and Population Genetics -- 9.1. The Dispersal of Uralo-Siberian: A Model -- 9.2. Archaeological Support for the Model -- 9.3. Genetic Support for the Model -- Part 2. The Dene-Yeniseian Hypothesis -- 1. Overview -- 2. Yeniseian Languages -- 3. Na-Dene: Tlingit, Eyak, and the Dene Languages -- 4. Dene-Yeniseian Phonology -- 5. Dene-Yeniseian Cognates -- 6. Form Classes and Noun Morphology -- 7. Possessive Constructions -- 7.1. Yeniseian Possessive Morphology -- 7.2. Dene-Eyak Noun Class Markers and Qualifiers -- 7.3. Postpositional Constructions -- 7.4. Directionals -- 7.5. Demonstratives and Interrogatives -- 7.6. Summary -- 8. Finite Verb Morphology -- 8.1. The Origin of Dene-Yeniseian Templatic Polysynthesis -- 8.2. The Na-Dene Classifier Prefixes -- 8.3. The Proto-Yeniseian Template -- 8.4. Tense-Aspect-Mood Affixes -- 8.5. Agreement Morphology -- 8.6. Contact-Induced Changes in the Yeniseian Daughter Templates -- 8.7. Areal Influence on Na-Dene Verb Morphology -- 8.8. Action Nominals -- 8.9. Concluding Remarks on Dene-Yeniseian Verb Morphology -- 9. Summary of the Linguistic Evidence for Dene-Yeniseian -- 10. Perspectives on Dene-Yeniseian from Population Genetics and Archaeology -- 11. Summary and Future Perspectives -- Concluding Discussion (Fortescue and Vajda) -- Appendix 1. P-US to English -- English to P-US -- Appendix 2. P-DY to English -- English to P-DY -- References -- Index. |
| Abstract | "This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia. It brings together all that has been proposed to date under the respective rubrics of the Uralo-Siberian (Eskimo-Yukaghir-Uralic) hypothesis and the Dene-Yeniseian hypothesis. The evolution of the two parallel research strategies for fleshing out these likely linguistic links between North America and Asia are compared and contrasted. Although focusing on stringently controlled linguistic reconstructions the volume draws upon archaeological and human genetic data where relevant"-- Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 510-526) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021056698 |
| ISBN | 9789004436817 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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