This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new

This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide a

A radical new theory of how languages were dispersed around the globe is debated by experts in historical linguistics, prehistoric archaeology, molecular geneti

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the

Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Pe