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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ been put forward by Cavalli-Sforza and his school (see for example Cavalli Sforza (1999)), but has in fact been disproven by historical, documentary evidence. The question then arises: what is the correct interpretation of the concept of ‘language family’? As pointed out above, a ‘language family’ cannot be equated with an ‘ethnic family’ – and this is the case not only for the IE family, but also, and even more so, for other language families, such as Uralic and Semitic. Neither can this concept be conceived of as a sort of ‘parthenogenesis’ (cladogram, according to current terminology), through which the various languages forming the family tree came into being splitting in ordered sequence. The concept of language family is instead to be interpreted in terms of an ‘archetypical’ (and not necessarily compact) linguistic entity that subsumes within itself all the features present in the early attested languages for each language group of a given family. In other words, a ‘mother language’ in the strict sense of the term does not really exist; rather, this is a metaphor through which linguists represent the oldest reconstructable ‘point of convergence’ of the shared features of a given language group/family, and from which these shared features are then passed on to the historical languages. Since we cannot be at all sure that an IE population existed in pre-historical times, we have to strongly doubt also the existence of an IE homeland. Instead, there must have been a community – quite possibly an ethnically distinct community, as it was often the case – that used a relatively homogeneous linguistic structure. This linguistic structure then in time evolved into those old historical languages whose (more or less extended) records have been passed on to us. It is only in these terms that we can legitimately talk about and use the concept of language family, without charging it with ethno-sociological implications it cannot have – unless one is prepared to stretch its meaning in an inappropriate and unscientific way. REFERENCES Barbujani, G., 2009. “Confini genetici e diversità linguistica”, in P. Cotticelli Kurras e G. Graffi (a cura di), Lingue, ethnos e popolazioni: evidenze linguistiche, biologiche e culturali. Atti del XXXII Congresso della Società Italiana di Glottologia, Roma: Il Calamo, pp. 33-54. Belardi, W., 1990a. “Genealogia, tipologia, ricostruzione e leggi fonetiche”, in Id., Linguistica generale, filologia e critica dell'espressione, Roma: Bonacci, pp. 155-216 Belardi, W., 1990b. “A proposito di lessemi romanzi nel bavarese meridionale antico”, in Stirpi e imprestiti, Roma: Dipartimento di Studi glottoantropologici, pp. 77-86. Belle, E. M. S. & G. Barbujani, 2007. “Worldwide Analysis of Multiple Microsatellites: Language Diversity has a Detectable Influence on DNA Diversity”, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133, pp. 1137-1146. Cavalli Sforza, L., 1999. Geni, popolazioni e lingue, in G. Longobardi (a cura di), Le lingue del mondo, Quaderni “Le Scienze” (ed. it. di Scientific American), 108, giugno 1999, pp. 46-52. Di Giovine, P., 2009. Verbal Inflection from “Proto-Indo-European” to the Indo-European Languages: A Matter of Coherence? in: A. Marcantonio (ed.): The Indo-European Language Family: Questions about its Status, Monograph series nr. 55 of ‘Journal of Indo-European Studies’, Washington DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2009, 6 (pp. 1-27). _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2010 42
January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Di Giovine, P., in stampa. “Comparazione e ricostruzione”, AIΩN 30 (2009 [2010]). Gusmani, R., 2009. “Lingua, cultura e caratteri genetici in un’ottica ricostruttiva”, in R. Bombi e F. Fusco (a cura di), ... Sand Carried by a Stream. Scritti in onore di Vincenzo Orioles, Udine: Forum, pp. 117-126. Madrigal, L. & G. Barbujani, 2007. “Partitioning of Genetic Variation in Human Populations and the Concept of Race”, in M. H. Crawford (ed.), Anthropological Genetics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-37. Mancini, M., 1990. L’esotismo nel lessico italiano, Viterbo: Università degli Studi della Tuscia, 1990. Marcantonio, A. 2002. The Uralic Language Family: Facts, Myths and Statistics. Oxford: Blackwell. Morpurgo Davies, A., 1996. La linguistica dell’Ottocento, Bologna: Il Mulino. Morpurgo Davies, A., 2009. “‘Razza’: usi e equivoci nell’Ottocento”, in P. Cotticelli Kurras e G. Graffi (a cura di), Lingue, ethnos e popolazioni: evidenze linguistiche, biologiche e culturali. Atti del XXXII Congresso della Società Italiana di Glottologia, Roma: Il Calamo, pp. 55-82. Römer, R., 1985. Sprachwissenschaft und die Rassenideologie in Deutschland, 2. ed.. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. _________ The following volume was in the focus of this Round Table, the author of this paper, Paolo Di Giovine being one of its contributors. Below you can find the details of it. We intend to publish more reviews on this important monograph in the next issues of our Journal. — Ed. Journal of Eurasian Studies Editor: Angela Marcantonio Title: The Indo-European Language Family: Questions about its Status Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, No. 55 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, DC http://www.jies.org Year of publishing: 2009 Language: English ISBN: 978-0-941694-03-2 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2010 43
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