In popular conception, Altaic is often assumed to constitute a language family, or perhaps a
phylum, but in reality, it involves a historical, areal, and typological complex of five separate …

How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western
philosophy Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the …

Language contact drives a range of linguistic phenomena, among them pidginization,
language mixture, language shift, code-switching, bi-and multilingualism …

Where does Japanese come from? The linguistic origin of the Japanese language is among
the most disputed questions of language history. One current hypothesis is that Japanese is …

Archaeology of East Asia the Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan Page 1 Page 2
ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan Gina L …

While earlier research often saw Altaic as an exception to the farming/language dispersal
hypothesis, recent work on millet cultivation in northeast China has led to the proposal that …

This study investigates the distribution of linguistic and specifically structural diversity in
Northeast Asia (NEA), defined as the region north of the Yellow River and east of the …

“Eski” dünya tarihinden mühim bir değişiklik arz eden bu kitap, okuyucularına dünya ve
dünya halklarının bilgilendirici, canlı ve bugünkü tarihini sunan yenilikçi New Oxford World …

Even after more than a century of linguistic research, the question of whether the Japanese
and Korean languages share a common origin remains unanswered. This dissertation …

Abstract The languages of Northeast Asia show evidence of dispersal from south to north,
consistent with the hypothesis that agriculture spread north and east from the vicinity of …