Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact

Handbook of Language Contact

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 359-379

  Nichols, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa, work of deciding whether macrofamilies are genealogical or areal groupings; Ancestral Aymaran, the lingua franca of Tiwanaku empire in the Andes and Quechuan; Areas identified by linguistic resemblances; Criteria for genealogical relatedness one strong resemblance multi element grammatical paradigm; Interior Asia, center of language spread; Long range comparison in Eurasia for decades on macrofamily called Nostratic; Macro Sudan Centered on Greenberg's Niger Kordofanian, on southern Sahel and savannah zone; Macrofamilies, macroareas and contact; Shared lexical roots as evidence of relatedness; Trans New Guinea (TNG) macrofamily across much of New Guinea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885492214     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318159.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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