Languages and genes in northwestern China and adjacent regions
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Languages and genes in northwestern China and adjacent regions
Springer, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China. It breaks down the barrier between human sciences and natural sciences in order to reconsider the diversity of languages on the basis of the latest research findings from genetics, linguistics, and other domains, offering valuable insights into when and how the divergence of languages and genes began and language and gene admixture and replacement occurred. The book focuses on language evolution between the border of Gansu and Qinghai Province in China, but the research doesn't neglect the area beyond China's northern borders. Manchu, a dying language belonging to the Tungusic group, is also studied to enhance our understanding of language replacement. This work is the result of a four-year collaboration between teams of geneticists and linguists in France and China.
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction Chapter author: Dan Xu (INALCO, France) and Hui Li(School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)Chapter 2. Correlation between genetic structure and linguistic phylogeny in East AsiaChapter author: Yunzhi Huang and Hui Li (School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)The chapterprovides a general landscape of correlation between population and languages in East Asia. Chapter 3. A genetic perspective on language replacement in SiberiaChapter author: LanhaiWei and Hui Li (School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)The chapter treats language replacement in the light of biological research. Chapter 4. The Silk Road: language and population admixture and replacementChapter author: Dan Xu (INALCO, France) and Shaoqing Wen (School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China)The chapter focusses on languages and populations on the Silk Road within China. Chapter 5. A comparative analysis of the case system in someNorthwestern SiniticlanguagesChapter author: Alain Peyraube(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chinese Linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)Thechapter re-examines the case system recently formed in Northwestern China. Chapter 6. Relationship between Altaic speaking populations and their languages from the perspective of Y chromosomesChapter author: Shaoqing Wen(School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China), Xiaodong Xie(Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, China)and Dan Xu(INALCO, France)The Chapter studies languages and populations at the border of Gansu and Qinghai.
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