Language geography and the dynamics of linguistic and population prehistory
The LANGUGE REDUX project addresses the continuing challenge of understanding the processes that have shaped linguistic diversity. Aiming to push deeper into linguistic prehistory, the main questions it will be concerned with are:...
ver más
Descripción del proyecto
The LANGUGE REDUX project addresses the continuing challenge of understanding the processes that have shaped linguistic diversity. Aiming to push deeper into linguistic prehistory, the main questions it will be concerned with are: How did languages come to be distributed the way they are, and can we identify parts of the world where particularly old linguistic distributions are preserved? The project will harness tools from geography and macroecology to pursue a radically new, strongly data-driven approach to explore these questions: while historical linguistics has traditionally focused on language spread and language expansion, the LANGUAGE REDUX project will instead turn to the processes in which the range of languages is reduced before they are ultimately replaced by other languages. It will explore the commonalities of the places in which languages survive later waves of language expansion longest –so-called REDUX areas–, and derive an account of geographical factors that favor the conservation of old linguistic distributions from them. The project’s main aim is to test the Geospatial Layering Hypothesis, which states that we can extrapolate from REDUX areas to identify those parts of the world that preserve earlier linguistic distributions, hosting deep lineages and typological structures that were once more common generally. If confirmed, this would be a breakthrough in historical linguistics and open up perspectives on linguistic and population prehistory that are hitherto unavailable. To explore this, the LANGUAGE REDUX project will establish a research framework in which qualitative historical evidence on different time scales is engaged with spatial statistics, process-based quantitative modeling, and state-of-the-art typological methods; in addition, the framework will take into account genetic evidence as a proxy for demographic prehistory and thereby embed the LANGUAGE REDUX project in an interdisciplinary research landscape on human prehistory.
Seleccionando "Aceptar todas las cookies" acepta el uso de cookies para ayudarnos a brindarle una mejor experiencia de usuario y para analizar el uso del sitio web. Al hacer clic en "Ajustar tus preferencias" puede elegir qué cookies permitir. Solo las cookies esenciales son necesarias para el correcto funcionamiento de nuestro sitio web y no se pueden rechazar.
Cookie settings
Nuestro sitio web almacena cuatro tipos de cookies. En cualquier momento puede elegir qué cookies acepta y cuáles rechaza. Puede obtener más información sobre qué son las cookies y qué tipos de cookies almacenamos en nuestra Política de cookies.
Son necesarias por razones técnicas. Sin ellas, este sitio web podría no funcionar correctamente.
Son necesarias para una funcionalidad específica en el sitio web. Sin ellos, algunas características pueden estar deshabilitadas.
Nos permite analizar el uso del sitio web y mejorar la experiencia del visitante.
Nos permite personalizar su experiencia y enviarle contenido y ofertas relevantes, en este sitio web y en otros sitios web.