Linguistic Archaeology

African Archaeological Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 109-130

  Ehret, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognate; Lexical artifact; Linguistic stratigraphy; Loanword; Proto Eastern Cushitic; Proto Indo European; Regular sound change; Systematic phonological reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866532443     PISSN: 02630338     EISSN: 15729842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10437-012-9116-x     Document Type: Article

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