%0 Report
        %A Galor, Oded
%A Özak, Ömer
%A Sarid, Assaf
        %T Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
        %D 2018
        %8 2018 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 11982
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11982
        %X This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of sex-based grammatical gender, and the ecological origins of hierarchical orientation to the existence of politeness distinctions. The study advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that: (i) geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher natural return to agricultural investment contributed to the existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense, (ii) the agricultural determinants of gender gap in agricultural productivity fostered the existence of sex-based grammatical gender, and (iii) the ecological origins of hierarchical societies triggered the emergence of politeness distinctions.
        %K comparative development
%K cultural evolution
%K language structures
%K future tense
%K politeness distinctions
%K long-term orientation
%K grammatical gender
%K gender bias
%K hierarchy
%K emergence of states