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Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics”

Who were the Indo-Europeans? Were they all-conquering heroes? Aggressive patriarchal Kurgan horsemen, sweeping aside the peaceful civilizations of Old Europe? Weed-smoking drug dealers rolling across … Visit New…

Post date 21st July 2015
Post author By George Walkden
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Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

New Books in Anthropology

Who were the Indo-Europeans? Were they all-conquering heroes? Aggressive patriarchal Kurgan horsemen, sweeping aside the peaceful civilizations of Old Europe? Weed-smoking drug dealers rolling across … Visit New…

Post date 21st July 2015
Post author By George Walkden
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Aneta Pavlenko, “The Bilingual Mind And What It Tells Us about Language and Thought”

New Books in Anthropology

[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] Big ideas about language often ignore, or abstract away from, the individual’s capacity to learn more than one language. In a world where…

Post date 29th March 2014
Post author By George Walkden
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