Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language research
The research of the article is based on theories that analyse the links between geography and linguistics. A core theory in the analysis is Diamond's (1999, Chapter 7) idea of the different population histories of continental areas, Güldemann (2008, 2010) speculatively proposed that macro-area...
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The research of the article is based on theories that analyse the links between geography and linguistics. A core theory in the analysis is Diamond's (1999, Chapter 7) idea of the different population histories of continental areas, Güldemann (2008, 2010) speculatively proposed that macro-areal aggregations of linguistic features might be influenced by large-scale geographical factors. In line with Diamond’s geographical axis hypothesis, it is assumed that the way linguistic features assemble periods time spans and large geographical space is determined among other things by two factors which potentially are the “latitude spread potential” and the “longitude spread the constraint.” This paper reports on first results of evaluating this concerning the first factor, we argue that contact-induced feature distributions as well as genealogically defined language groups that have a sufficient geographical extension tend to have a latitudinal orientation. Regarding the second factor, provide the first results suggesting that linguistic diversity within language families tends to be higher along the longitude axis. If these findings can be replicated by more extensive and diverse testing, they promise to become important ingredients for a comprehensive theory of human history across space and time within linguistics and beyond.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9fc7b6152214acc97201d1b69c2e7272024-01-08T15:04:25ZporCoimbra University PressCadernos de Geografia0871-16232183-40162024-01-014810.14195/0871-1623_48_5Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language researchMarius Alexandru Tătar0Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj — Napoca Faculty of Geography, Doctoral School of Geography The research of the article is based on theories that analyse the links between geography and linguistics. A core theory in the analysis is Diamond's (1999, Chapter 7) idea of the different population histories of continental areas, Güldemann (2008, 2010) speculatively proposed that macro-areal aggregations of linguistic features might be influenced by large-scale geographical factors. In line with Diamond’s geographical axis hypothesis, it is assumed that the way linguistic features assemble periods time spans and large geographical space is determined among other things by two factors which potentially are the “latitude spread potential” and the “longitude spread the constraint.” This paper reports on first results of evaluating this concerning the first factor, we argue that contact-induced feature distributions as well as genealogically defined language groups that have a sufficient geographical extension tend to have a latitudinal orientation. Regarding the second factor, provide the first results suggesting that linguistic diversity within language families tends to be higher along the longitude axis. If these findings can be replicated by more extensive and diverse testing, they promise to become important ingredients for a comprehensive theory of human history across space and time within linguistics and beyond. https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/cadernosgeografia/article/view/13117Geographical AxisAreal linguisticsLarge-scale feature distributions |
| spellingShingle | Marius Alexandru Tătar Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language research Cadernos de Geografia Geographical Axis Areal linguistics Large-scale feature distributions |
| title | Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language research |
| title_full | Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language research |
| title_fullStr | Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language research |
| title_short | Implication of the Geographical Axis for international scale language research |
| title_sort | implication of the geographical axis for international scale language research |
| topic | Geographical Axis Areal linguistics Large-scale feature distributions |
| url | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/cadernosgeografia/article/view/13117 |
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