Are Tere "khoisan" Roots in Body-Part Vocabulary? on Linguistic Inheritance and Contact in the Kalahari Basin

Language Dynamics and Change

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-258

  Güldemann, Tom ^a   Loughnane, Robyn ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body parts; Historical linguistics; Kalahari Basin area; Khoisan; Language contact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906703801     PISSN: 22105824     EISSN: 22105832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-20120209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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