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Title: | Trans-Himalayan | Contributor(s): | van Driem, George (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | DOI: | 10.7892/boris.46265 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20536 | Abstract: | 1 Astride the Himalayas This Trans-Himalayan tale unites two narratives, an historical account of scholarly thinking regarding linguistic phylogeny in eastern Eurasia alongside a reconstruction of the ethnolinguistic prehistory of eastern Eurasia based on linguistic and human population genetic phylogeography. The first story traces the tale of transformation in thought regarding language relationships in eastern Eurasia from Tibeto-Burman to Trans-Himalayan. The path is strewn with defunct family trees such as Indo-Chinese, Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Himalayan and Sino-Kiranti. In the heyday of racism in scholarship, Social Darwinism coloured both language typology and the phylogenetic models of language relationship in eastern Eurasia. Its influential role in the perpetuation of the Indo-Chinese model is generally left untold. The second narrative presents a conjectural reconstruction of the ethnolinguistic prehistory of eastern Eurasia based on possible correlations between genes and language communities. In so doing, biological ancestry and linguistic affinity are meticulously distinguished, a distinction which the language typologists of yore sought to blur, although the independence of language and race was stressed time and again by prominent historical linguists. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Trans-Himalayan Linguistics, v.266, p. 11-40 | Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton | Place of Publication: | Berlin, Germany | ISBN: | 9783110310740 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950399 Heritage not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130401 Assessment of heritage value | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/203634040 | Series Name: | Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs | Series Number : | 266 | Editor: | Editor(s): Walter Bisang, Thomas Owen-Smith & Nathan W Hill |
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