Asya Pereltsvaig,Martin W. Lewis's The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in PDF

By Asya Pereltsvaig,Martin W. Lewis

during the last decade, a gaggle of prolific and cutting edge evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent old linguistics by utilizing phylogenetic and phylogeographical research, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the unfold of languages when it comes to the diffusion of viruses. utilizing those thoughts, researchers declare to have positioned the beginning of the Indo-European language relations in Neolithic Anatolia, hard the near-consensus view that it emerged within the grasslands north of the Black Sea millions of years later. yet regardless of its common get together within the worldwide media, this new technique fails to resist scrutiny. As languages don't evolve like organic species and don't unfold like viruses, the version produces incoherent effects, contradicted by means of the empirical checklist at each flip. This e-book asserts that the foundation and unfold of languages needs to be tested essentially in the course of the time-tested ideas of linguistic research, instead of these of evolutionary biology.

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