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March 2-7: Language, culture, and prehistory

  1. Etymology. The ``words and things'' method.
  2. Cultural reconstruction: inferences from the proto-vocabulary.
  3. Using linguistic evidence to trace prehistoric contacts and migrations.



Paul Kiparsky 2006-01-09