『RC』美国土著语言发展 背景资料！！

claireshinning

找到一篇论文the origin of language 里面所覆盖的信息和寂静里美国土著语言所覆盖的信息匹配度还挺高的。都在讨论语言同源性，基因bio上的测度，还有个叫greenberg的人把语言分成四大类。文章最后还讨论了unrelated，语言学考证是否可行等的正确性。虽然大致看了一下文章观点可能偏向every language is related ...blah blah
总感觉很像的感觉，如果有狗主愿意可以帮忙再鉴定一下。文章很长发个链接
http://www.merrittruhlen.com/files/Origin.pdf





以下是开头部分的一段
                                                                       pointed out in 1871 that “the formation of different languages and of distinctspecies, and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradualprocess, are curiously parallel.” Were it not for these “curious” similarities it isdoubtful that biologists and taxonomic linguists would ever conceive of a jointconference; historians and mathematicians seldom confer. Yet my focus hereis on an area where the biological and linguistic perspectives appear to clashrather than to complement one another. For biologists the monogenetic originof Homo sapiens sapiens is now generally accepted (though supporters of“Multiregional Evolution” would dispute this point), and for them, the notionthat the Indo-European peoples have no known biological relatives would beludicrous. Yet for most linguists a common origin of all human languagesis very much in doubt, and the belief that Indo-European has no knownlinguistic relatives is not only a safe position, but practically a merit badgefor sober scholarship. In practice, if not in theory, the linguistic approach ispre-Darwinian, in the sense that dozens, or even hundreds, of linguistic taxaare treated as if they were historically independent developments. Linguistsseldom go so far as to deny the possibility that all these taxa are ultimatelyrelated; what they deny is that there is any linguistic evidence for such ahypothesis.

CCcarol

感谢！~