Mid-Holocene Language Connections Between Asia and North America

by Edward Vajda and Michael Fortescue

This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two language families of North America that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia. It brings together all that has been proposed to date under the respective rubrics of the Uralo-Siberian (Eskimo-Yukaghir-Uralic) hypothesis and the Dene-Yeniseian hypothesis. The evolution of the two parallel research strategies for fleshing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004436812
• ISBN13: 9789004436817
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 546 Pages