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1 online resource (xxiv, 476 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"Works of Harold Crane Fleming": pages [xix]-xxiv. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Photo graphs; Works of Harold Crane Fleming; Part 1. African peoples; Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation; A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family; African weeks; Part 2. African languages -- Synchronic studies; Gender distinction and affirmative Copula clauses in Zargulla; Riddling in Gidole; Part 3. African languages -- Classification andprehistory. |
| Summary |
Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming's major focus on language -- he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue -- the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming's extensive fie. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comparative linguistics.
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Comparative linguistics. |
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Human beings -- Origin.
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Human beings -- Origin. |
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Electronic books.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Bengtson, John D.
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Fleming, Harold Crane, 1926-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: In hot pursuit of language in prehistory. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008 9789027232526 9027232520 (DLC) 2008030839 (OCoLC)234260137 |
| ISBN |
9789027289858 (electronic book) |
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9027289859 (electronic book) |
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9789027232526 (cloth) |
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9027232520 (cloth) |
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1282104632 |
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9781282104631 |
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