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Ancient agriculture borrowings between Sino-Tibetan and Transeurasian Languages

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Deng,  Bingcong
Archaeolinguistic Research Group, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Deng, B. (2023). Ancient agriculture borrowings between Sino-Tibetan and Transeurasian Languages. In M. Hudson, & M. Robbeets (Eds.), Agropastoralism and languages across Eurasia: expansion, exchange, environment (pp. 41-51). Oxford: BAR Publishing.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-A8DE-C
Abstract
This chapter looks into agricultural lexical borrowings between Sino-Tibetan and Transeurasian languages during the Neolithic and Bronze Age, in order to investigate the prehistoric contact situations among the speech communities. It attempts to integrate archaeological and linguistic evidence to understand the nature of their early interactions. Six potential lexical borrowings are identified. The results based on linguistic research 8r/consistent with previous archaeological findings: there we rare instances of agricultural lexical borrowings between the pro to-languages during the Neolithic, but more eases of borrowings among lower taxonomic languages during the Bronze Age. Future research on other semantic domains involved in borrowing is needed to reveal more information about early contact dynamics.