Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada V1V 1V7.
Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2021 May 10;376(1824):20200201. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0201. Epub 2021 Mar 22.
In this paper, we compare the languages each of the authors invented as prehistoric languages for popular culture media. Schreyer's language, , was created for the film (2018), while Adger's language, was created for a television series on how early hominins spread throughout the world (the series was green-lit but then cancelled). We argue that though this creative process may seem far removed from classical research paradigms on language evolution, it can provide some insight into how disparate research on the possible properties of prehistoric languages can be brought together to illustrate how these languages might have worked as whole linguistic systems within these imagined worlds, as well as in prehistory. This article is part of the theme issue 'Reconstructing prehistoric languages'.
在本文中,我们比较了作者们为流行文化媒体发明的史前语言。施赖尔的语言 是为电影《》(2018 年)创造的,而阿杰的语言 是为一个关于早期人类如何遍布世界的电视剧系列创造的(该系列获得了制作许可,但后来被取消了)。我们认为,尽管这一创作过程似乎与语言进化的经典研究范式相去甚远,但它可以让我们了解到,如何将关于史前语言可能特性的不同研究结合起来,以说明这些语言在这些想象的世界中以及在史前时期作为完整的语言系统是如何运作的。本文是主题为“重建史前语言”的一部分。