"Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change."
Notes on the Decipherment of Tartessian as Celtic(1st Edition) (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series No. 62) by TerrenceKaufman Paperback, 526 Pages, Published 2015 by Institute For The Study Of Man, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-9845383-3-1, ISBN: 0-9845383-3-X
"This study is an investigation of the Tartessian inscriptions from SW Iberia that were produced between 750 and 500 BCE: Introduction/Preface/Foreword; The Tartessian Inscriptions; the Tartessian Polity and the Tartessian Language; Tartessian is Celtic; The Tartessian Writing System; Some Methodological points on Decipherment; Conclusions Regarding the Linguistic Features of Tartessian; The position of Tartessian within Celtic; Another ..."
"Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman. Throughout the book, our discussion
of other ... BOAS VS. SAPIR ON FOREIGN INFLUENCE vs. GENETIC
INHERITANCE To most American linguists, the famous Boas-Sapir controversy is
by far the best known discussion of the possibility (or not) of distinguishing, for
purposes of genetic classification, inherited similarities in two languages from
similarities that result from language contact. This cont ..."
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