Gerd Carling is Professor of Empirical Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
'Linguistic Archaeology is unparalleled in its scope and depth. In this indispensable core resource, Gerd Carling provides detailed historical accounts of the theoretical currents informing the contemporary study of language and languages in the deep past, complementing these with state-of-the-art descriptions of the methodological toolbox available to researchers.' Chris Sinha, University of East Anglia, UK