Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact

by Crevels, Mily; Muysken, Pieter

• ISBN13: 9780198723813
• ISBN10: 0198723814
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-09-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mily Crevels, Senior University Lecturer in Linguistics, Leiden University,Pieter Muysken, Professor of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen

Mily Crevels is Senior University Lecturer in Linguistics at Leiden University. Her main research interests are the indigenous languages of South America, especially in the Guapor?-Mamor? and Gran Chaco regions, language documentation, and linguistic typology. She is the co-founder and editor of the series 'Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas' (Brill) and has edited multiple books on the native languages of South America

Pieter Muysken is Professor of Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen. His main research interests are Andean languages, Creole languages, and language contact, and his current work focuses on language contact and language history in South America. His books include Bilingual Speech: A Typology of Code-Mixing (CUP, 2000), The Languages of the Andes (with Willem Adelaar; CUP, 2004) and Functional Categories (CUP, 2008).

Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken are the editors of the four-volume work Lenguas de Bolivia (Plural, 2009-2015) and of South American Indigenous Languages: Four Descriptive Studies (Brill, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

1. Patterns of diversification and contact: Re-examining dispersal hypotheses, Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken
Part I: General approaches
2. Dispersal patterns shape areal typology, Johanna Nichols
3. Sociolinguistic typology and the uniformitarian hypothesis, Peter Trudgill
4. Geographical axis effects in large-scale linguistic distributions, Tom G?ldemann and Harald Hammarstr?m
5. Large and ancient linguistic areas, Balthasar Bickel
Part II: Southeast Asia and Oceania
6. Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania, Marian Klamer, Mily Crevels, and Pieter Muysken
7. Time, diversification, and dispersal on the Australian continent: Three enigmas of linguistic prehistory, Nicholas Evans
8. Language diversity, geomorphological change, and population movements in the Sepik-Ramu basin of Papua New Guinea, William A. Foley
9. The dynamics of human expansion and cultural diversification in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the Neolithic: An archaeological perspective, Jean-Christophe Galipaud
10. The role of contact and language shift in the spread of Austronesian languages across Island Southeast Asia, Mark Donohue and Tim Denham
Part III: Africa
11. Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Africa, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Mily Crevels, and Pieter Muysken
12. Language diversification and contact in Africa, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
13. The Bantu expansion: Some facts and fiction, Koen Bostoen
14. Language isolates and the spread of pastoralism in East Africa, Maarten Mous
Part IV: South America
15. Patterns of dispersal and diversification in South America, Pieter Muysken and Mily Crevels
16. Amazonian linguistic diversity and its sociocultural correlates, Patience Epps
17. Cultural phylogenetics in lowland South America, Robert S. Walker