Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-183-409
А. Е. Аникин, Ирма Муллонен
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Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-209
George Starostin
The paper continues the author ʼ s efforts to build up a lexicostatistical basis for the hypothesis of a genetic relationship between several African language groups and families collectively known as «East Sudanic». Here, on the basis of lexical comparison between core basic vocabularies, I argue that the small Nyimang language group of the Nuba Mountains is indeed genetically related to the «core Northeast Sudanic» trio of Nubian, Nara, and Tama, rather than to the much more distantly related Temein languages, also found in the Nuba Mountains. However, this relation may be even more distant than the one between Nubian, Nara, and Tama themselves. Additionally, it is shown that this issue is difficult to resolve without bringing into the comparison at least a limited amount of data from other potentially East Sudanic languages, bringing out the limitations of purely binary (or even ternary) comparison when it comes to establishing the genetic affiliation of small and chronologically remote linguistic entities.
{"title":"Lexicostatistical Studies in East Sudanic II: The Case of Nyimang","authors":"George Starostin","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-181-209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-209","url":null,"abstract":"The paper continues the author ʼ s efforts to build up a lexicostatistical basis for the hypothesis of a genetic relationship between several African language groups and families collectively known as «East Sudanic». Here, on the basis of lexical comparison between core basic vocabularies, I argue that the small Nyimang language group of the Nuba Mountains is indeed genetically related to the «core Northeast Sudanic» trio of Nubian, Nara, and Tama, rather than to the much more distantly related Temein languages, also found in the Nuba Mountains. However, this relation may be even more distant than the one between Nubian, Nara, and Tama themselves. Additionally, it is shown that this issue is difficult to resolve without bringing into the comparison at least a limited amount of data from other potentially East Sudanic languages, bringing out the limitations of purely binary (or even ternary) comparison when it comes to establishing the genetic affiliation of small and chronologically remote linguistic entities.","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"18 1","pages":"111 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42686912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-207
P. Kocharov
{"title":"Alwin KLOEKHORST and Tijmen PRONK (eds.). The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses, 2019","authors":"P. Kocharov","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-181-207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"18 1","pages":"80 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44510708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-204
S. Görke
The article discusses the use of heterograms in Hurrian texts from Anatolia and Northern Syria of the second millennium BC. The frequency of Sumeroand Akkadograms is examined through a variety of Hurrian text genres. Most texts of religious content, which include rituals, festivals, or myths, exhibit only a small number of logograms and determinatives. Hurrian mantic texts from Ḫattuša and Emar offer an exception to these findings, in that they make use of a comparatively large amount of heterograms. In order to interpret these data one should consider a number of parameters, such as the scribes’ level of foreign language acquisition, the texts’ possible addressees, and the significance of text genres and styles. For comparison, a short overview of heterographic writing in Urartian texts has been provided.
{"title":"Heterogramme in hurritischen Texten aus Boğazköy und Nordsyrien","authors":"S. Görke","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-181-204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-204","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the use of heterograms in Hurrian texts from Anatolia and Northern Syria of the second millennium BC. The frequency of Sumeroand Akkadograms is examined through a variety of Hurrian text genres. Most texts of religious content, which include rituals, festivals, or myths, exhibit only a small number of logograms and determinatives. Hurrian mantic texts from Ḫattuša and Emar offer an exception to these findings, in that they make use of a comparatively large amount of heterograms. In order to interpret these data one should consider a number of parameters, such as the scribes’ level of foreign language acquisition, the texts’ possible addressees, and the significance of text genres and styles. For comparison, a short overview of heterographic writing in Urartian texts has been provided.","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"18 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42944003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-210
М. М. Лоренц
{"title":"Анализ базисной лексики диалектов группы Минь и реконструкция праминьского 100-словного списка","authors":"М. М. Лоренц","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-181-210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"18 1","pages":"126 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46662228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-frontmatter181-2
{"title":"Titelei","authors":"","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-frontmatter181-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-frontmatter181-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48982404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-205
Rostislav Oreshko
The paper offers an overview of the ethnolinguistic and sociolinguistic contact in Lycia in the Late Bronze and the Early Iron Age (ca. 1400–330 BC) resulting from the sea-borne connections of the region. Following a brief sketch of the Lycian geography and definition of its ‘ethnocultural interfaces’ (§1), the discussion concentrates in turn on the southern coasts of Caria and Rhodos, also touching upon the question of the ethnic names of the Lycians, Lukkā/Λύκιοι and Trm ̃mile/i (§2), Pamphylia (§3), Rough Cilicia (§4), the Levant (§5) and the Aegean (§6). The section on the Aegean offers a revision of the evidence on Greek-Lycian contacts and suggests a new explanatory scenario accounting for the paradoxical situation where an insignificant number of lexical borrowings contrasts with evidence for a deep structural influence of Greek on Lycian.
{"title":"Ethnic Groups and Language Contact in Lycia (I): the ‘Maritime Interface’","authors":"Rostislav Oreshko","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-181-205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-205","url":null,"abstract":"The paper offers an overview of the ethnolinguistic and sociolinguistic contact in Lycia in the Late Bronze and the Early Iron Age (ca. 1400–330 BC) resulting from the sea-borne connections of the region. Following a brief sketch of the Lycian geography and definition of its ‘ethnocultural interfaces’ (§1), the discussion concentrates in turn on the southern coasts of Caria and Rhodos, also touching upon the question of the ethnic names of the Lycians, Lukkā/Λύκιοι and Trm ̃mile/i (§2), Pamphylia (§3), Rough Cilicia (§4), the Levant (§5) and the Aegean (§6). The section on the Aegean offers a revision of the evidence on Greek-Lycian contacts and suggests a new explanatory scenario accounting for the paradoxical situation where an insignificant number of lexical borrowings contrasts with evidence for a deep structural influence of Greek on Lycian.","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"18 1","pages":"13 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42152090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-206
B. Prósper
This work aims to clarify the phonetics and phonology of sibilants and sibilant clusters in the Italic languages, and will specifically attend to the outcomes of /ns/ and /rs/ in different positions. The structure and meaning of a number of Sabellic words and sentences will be reanalysed and reinterpreted, with a special focus on Oscan and one of its dialects, Marrucinian. An appendix containing a novel interpretation of the new «Opic» inscription of Niumsis Tanunis is included.
{"title":"The Sabellic accusative plural endings and the outcome of the Indo-European sibilants in Italic","authors":"B. Prósper","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-181-206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-206","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims to clarify the phonetics and phonology of sibilants and sibilant clusters in the Italic languages, and will specifically attend to the outcomes of /ns/ and /rs/ in different positions. The structure and meaning of a number of Sabellic words and sentences will be reanalysed and reinterpreted, with a special focus on Oscan and one of its dialects, Marrucinian. An appendix containing a novel interpretation of the new «Opic» inscription of Niumsis Tanunis is included.","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"18 1","pages":"41 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41536793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-208
F. Carvalho
The goal of this paper is to critically examine the linguistic analyses underlying Walker & Ribeiro (2011), a widely cited computational phylogenetic study of the Arawakan language family. To the extent that their claims concerning the internal classification of this vast group of languages hinges on their cognation judgments, and that their more ambitious claims concerning prehistoric migration routes of Arawakan-speaking peoples depend, in turn, on this proposed internal classification, I show that outright rejection of their results is highly commendable. Errors include both false negatives, where cognation relations between comparanda were missed, as well as false positives, where non-cognate material in different languages were judged to be reflexes of single Proto-Arawakan etyma. No clear pattern seems to emerge from their cognation decisions, and the resulting judgments seem to be, in many cases, so strongly detached from even impressionistic assessments of similarity that the resulting distribution of cognation scores could have been produced independently of the data. The paper ends with a plea for greater sobriety in the historical linguistics of native South America, which should focus on clear and well-supported applications of the comparative method before embarking on endeavors that depend on this traditional work for their success. More importantly, though, South Americanists should avoid groundless statements on the supposed uselessness, or exhaustion, of the comparative method as a tool for uncovering the linguistic history of the continent.
{"title":"Evaluation of cognation judgments undermines computational phylogeny of the Arawakan language family","authors":"F. Carvalho","doi":"10.31826/jlr-2020-181-208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-208","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this paper is to critically examine the linguistic analyses underlying Walker & Ribeiro (2011), a widely cited computational phylogenetic study of the Arawakan language family. To the extent that their claims concerning the internal classification of this vast group of languages hinges on their cognation judgments, and that their more ambitious claims concerning prehistoric migration routes of Arawakan-speaking peoples depend, in turn, on this proposed internal classification, I show that outright rejection of their results is highly commendable. Errors include both false negatives, where cognation relations between comparanda were missed, as well as false positives, where non-cognate material in different languages were judged to be reflexes of single Proto-Arawakan etyma. No clear pattern seems to emerge from their cognation decisions, and the resulting judgments seem to be, in many cases, so strongly detached from even impressionistic assessments of similarity that the resulting distribution of cognation scores could have been produced independently of the data. The paper ends with a plea for greater sobriety in the historical linguistics of native South America, which should focus on clear and well-supported applications of the comparative method before embarking on endeavors that depend on this traditional work for their success. More importantly, though, South Americanists should avoid groundless statements on the supposed uselessness, or exhaustion, of the comparative method as a tool for uncovering the linguistic history of the continent.","PeriodicalId":52215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Relationship","volume":"18 1","pages":"87 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46715899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.31826/jlr-2019-173-411
M. Molina
In this paper I analyze degrees of gradation in Hittite, looking at equative, similative, comparative, superlative, elative and excessive semantics in Hittite myths, prayers, letters and instructions, in comparison with Luwian data. The results may work towards a better understanding of degree formation in Indo-European languages, with implications for possible reconstructions of Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European. Corpus approach and contextual analysis applied to Hittite material help to extract contexts that are not explicit and might be described as pragmatic means of expressing gradation semantics. The paper aims at shedding light on the early processes in Indo-European comparative morphology, as attested in Anatolian languages.
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