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Конференция памяти Н.Я. Мерперта «Локализация прародины индоевропейцев: новые данные» / «Indo-European Homeland and Migrations: Linguistics, Archeology and DNA» 12 сентября 2012. Москва. Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, ауд.228 («Профессорская»). 11:00 - 14:00 15:00 - 19:30 Хендаут моего доклада: «Lexical isoglosses between Sumerian and Hurro-Urartian: possible historical scenarios». The paper deals with lexical isoglosses between two ancient Near Eastern languages: Sumerian and Hurrian (Hurro-Urartian); namely several basic terms (like ‘hand’, ‘rain’ and so on) phonetically similar in both languages are discussed. Four possible scenarios are evaluated from the typological, etymological and statistical points of view: (1) chance coincidences; (2) lexical borrowings from Sumerian into Hurro-Urartian or vice versa; (3) genetic relationship between Sumerian and Hurro-Urartian; (4) prehistoric language shift: adoption by a Hurro-Urartian (or closely related) group of the Sumerian language or vice versa. Out of these four, two scenarios — lexical borrowings and genetic relationship — are typologically unlikely. The statistical probability of chance coincidences is low, although formally this explanation cannot be excluded. The fourth scenario — language shift — fits linguistic evidence and does not contradict archaeological data. |
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