The Kalahari Basin area: a 'Sprachbund' on the verge of extinction - "The Central Kalahari area with a focus on Hoan (Ju-Hoan family): language contact and population genetics"

这个个人项目旨在结合分子人类学和语言学调查，以了解卡拉哈里盆地作为一个语言区出现所涉及的因素。语言领域的出现所涉及的过程仍然没有被完全理解，而且时间深度越深，就越难解开它们。鉴于南非使用的科伊桑语可能有着非常悠久的历史（参见《南非历史》）。Traill & Nakagawa 2000：1-2），语言学研究本身可能不足以提供对社会文化因素的见解，这些因素在共同特征的出现中发挥了作用。一个多学科的方法显然是需要获得的过程中所涉及的语言接触和语言特征的区域扩散的理解。

This Individual Project aims at combining both molecular anthropological and linguistic investigations to gain an understanding of the factors involved in the emergence of the Kalahari Basin as a linguistic area. The processes involved in the emergence of linguistic areas are still not fully understood, and the deeper the time depth the more difficult it is to unravel them. Given the fact that the Khoisan languages spoken in South Africa may have a very deep history (cf. Traill & Nakagawa 2000: 1-2), linguistic investigations alone may not be sufficient to provide insights into the sociocultural factors that played a role in the emergence of shared traits. A multidisciplinary approach is clearly needed to gain an understanding of processes involved in language contact and areal diffusion of linguistic features.