Roger Blench: language materials

 

 

 

 

 

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Most of this material is my own, but some data provided by other scholars is also included. The primary division is by language phylum. Apart from individual phyla, a broad category of World covers global topics.

 

 

 

South Asia

 

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Re-evaluating the linguistic prehistory of South Asia. Presentation at the workshop:  Landscape, demography and subsistence in prehistoric India:  exploratory workshop on the middle Ganges and the Vindhyas. Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, 2-3 June, 2007

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South Asia paper

 

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Northeast India Resources

 

 

 

 

Tasmanian

 

 

Amerindian

 

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The pattern of Amerindian languages

Presented at: OMLL Workshop: New Directions in Historical Linguistics. Lyon, France, May 11-14, 2008.

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World

 

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2014

Language and archaeology: state of the art. Chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. N.J. Enfield, P. Kockelman, J. Sidnell eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In press

2014

The origins of nominal affixes in MSEA languages: convergence, contact and some African parallels. In: Mainland Southeast Asian Languages: The State of the Art. N.J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie eds. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Revised version of a paper presented at Mainland Southeast Asian Languages: The State of the Art in 2012. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. 29 November - 1 December 2012. Also Powerpoint

In press

2008

Agriculture and phylic dispersals ; re-evaluating the evidence. Presented at the meeting ‘Us and Them: Modelling past genetic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries’. Bordeaux 15–17, May 2008

Unpublished

2005

From the mountains to the valleys: understanding ethnolinguistic geography in SE Asia. In: Sagart, L.  Blench, R.M. & A. Sanchez-Mazas, (eds.) Perspectives on the Phylogeny of East Asian Languages. 31-50. London: Curzon Press.

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199?

Lateral fricatives in Africa and worldwide: explorations in the prehistory of phonemes

Unpublished

 

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