Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language"

Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language"

Christopher Ehret's "Bantu History: Re-envisioning the Evidence of Language" is critiqued. One of the great merits of Ehret's article is that it describes the methodology of lexicostatistics with sufficient clarity and succinctness to be readily intelligible to non-linguists.

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Veröffentlicht in:The International journal of African historical studies 2001-01, Vol.34 (1), p.43-81
Hauptverfasser: Oliver, Roland, Spear, Thomas, Klieman, Kairn, Vansina, Jan, MacEachern, Scott, Schoenbrun, David, Denbow, James, Bastin, Yvonne, Batibo, H. M., Heine, Bernd, Mann, Michael, Nurse, Derek, Wandibba, Simiyu
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
African history
Bantu languages
Historical linguistics
History
History instruction
Language
Language contact
Language history
Languages
Linguistics
Loan words
Nurses
Vocabulary
Words
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Zusammenfassung:Christopher Ehret's "Bantu History: Re-envisioning the Evidence of Language" is critiqued. One of the great merits of Ehret's article is that it describes the methodology of lexicostatistics with sufficient clarity and succinctness to be readily intelligible to non-linguists.
ISSN:0361-7882
2326-3016
DOI:10.2307/3097286