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Author : Čestmír Loukotka
Publisher : University of California, Latin American Center
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indians
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018643865
Author : Čestmír Loukotka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038580143
Author : Johannes Wilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037200008
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195349832
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.
Author : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018643821
Author : Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110258035
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
Author : Harriet E. Manelis Klein,Louisa R. Stark
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292737327
This book fills the crucial need for a single volume that gives broad coverage and synthesizes findings for both the general reader and the specialist. This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying past research, providing data and analysis gathered from past and current research, and suggesting prospects for future investigation. Of interest not only to linguists but also to anthropologists, historians, and geographers, South American Indian Languages offers a wide perspective, both temporal and regional, on an area noted for its enormous linguistic diversity and for the lack of knowledge of its indigenous languages. An invaluable source book and reference tool, its appearance is especially timely when exploitation of the rich natural resources in a number of areas in South America must surely result in the demise and/or acculturation of some indigenous groups.
Author : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512803068
South American Indian Languages are a particularly rich field for comparative study, and this book brings together some of the finest scholarship now being done in that area.
Author : Patricia Lyon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592444816
Compilation of 39 original essays intended for use in teaching about the native peoples of South American with a concentration on those areas of South American that still contain functioning Indian cultures. Includes 17"x22" fold out map.
Author : Johannes Wilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015232387
Author : Thomas Sebeok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781475715620
The publishing history of the eleven chapters that comprise the contents of this second volume of Native Languages of the Americas is rather different from that of the thirteen that appeared in Volume I of this twin set late last year. Original ver sions of five articles, respectively, by Barthel, Grimes, Longacre, Mayers, and Suarez, were first published in Part II of Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 4, subtitled lbero-A merican and Caribbean Linguistics (1968), having been com missioned by the undersigned in his capacity as editor of the fourteen volume series which was distributed in twenty-one tomes between 1963 and 1976. McClaran's article is reprinted from Part III of Vol. 10. Linguistics in North America (1973) and the two by Kaufman and Rensch were in Part I I of Vol. 11, Diachronic, A real. and Typological Linguistics (1973 ). There are three contributions by Landar: earlier versions of two appeared in Vol. 10 ("North American Indian Languages. " accompanied by William Sorsby's maps of tribal groups of North and Central America), and in Vol. 13, Historiography of Linguistics (1975); however, his checklist of South and Central American Indian languages was freshly compiled for this book. Generous financial support for preparing the materials included in this project came from several agencies of the United States government, to wit: the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, for Vols. 10 and 13, and the Office of Education, for Vols. 4 and 11; in addition.
Author : R.E. Asher,Christopher Moseley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317851097
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author : William J. Smole
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292729872
The Yanoama are one of the most numerous remaining aboriginal populations of the South American tropical forests, and their large territory constitutes a significant culture region. Although other scholars (anthropologists, geneticists, linguists) have studied this contemporary "neolithic" population, this is the first geographic study of the Yanoama. It is also the only book to focus on the Yanoama highland core area—the Parima massif—and it is the first study to analyze Yanoama horticulture as an integral part of their ecosystem. The author is concerned principally with the spatial dimension as developed in Yanoama culture, with the spatial patterns of functioning systems, and with Yanoama ecology in this highland habitat. The natural environment is viewed, not as a cultural determinant, but as part of the total ecosystem. Livelihood activities constitute a major organizing theme and, among these, gardening receives the most attention. Frequently classified as a nomadic hunter-gatherer group, the Yanoama are found to have a deep-seated horticultural tradition, and many new data on this tradition are presented. As this study reveals, the Yanoama have created and maintained a cultural landscape that bears their distinctive stamp.
Author : Loretta O'Connor,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107044289
In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution.
Author : Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004527898
A study into how native Amazonians experienced and shaped life in missions in its different facets. The book focuses on the missions of Maynas during the Jesuit administration, from 1638 to 1768.