『The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics』

Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin W. Lewis

(2015年4月刊行,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xii+324 pp., ISBN:9781107054530 [hbk] → 版元ページ

目次をぱらぱら見た感じだと,本書の Part II: The Failings of the Bayesian Phylogenetic Research Program(pp. 53-156)はベイズ言語系統推定に対する全面的な反論をしているね.

【目次】
List of figures vii
List of maps viii
List of tables x
Acknowledgments xi


Introduction: the Indo-European debate and why it matters 1


Part I. The Vexatious History of Indo-European Studies 17

1. Ideology and interpretation from the 1700s to the 1970s 19
2. Anatolia vs. the Steppes 39

Part II. The Failings of the Bayesian Phylogenetic Research Program 53

3. What theory we want and what theory we get 55
4. Linguistic fallacies of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 64
5. Dating problems of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 92
6. The historical-geographical failure of the Bayesian phylogenetic model 114
7. Unwarranted assumptions 127

Part III. Searching for Indo-European Origins 157

8. Why linguists don't do dates? Or do they? 159
9. Triangulating the Indo-European homeland 182
10. The non-mystery of Indo-European expansion 208
11. Whither historical linguistics? 216


Conclusion: what is at stake in the Indo-European debate 229


Appendix 236
Glossary 281
Bibliography 288
Index 316