South American Indian Languages

Author : Harriet E. Manelis Klein,Louisa R. Stark
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292737327

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South American Indian Languages by Harriet E. Manelis Klein,Louisa R. Stark Pdf

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 : Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110258035

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The Indigenous Languages of South America by Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : OCLC:39764796

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South American Indian Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : UCSC:32106005175101

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The Grouping of South American Indian Languages by Mary Ritchie Key Pdf

Author : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816521395

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Origin of the Earth and Moon by Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter Pdf

This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195349832

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American Indian Languages by Lyle Campbell Pdf

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 : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512803068

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Language Change in South American Indian Languages by Mary Ritchie Key Pdf

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 : Loretta O'Connor,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107044289

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The Native Languages of South America by Loretta O'Connor,Pieter Muysken Pdf

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 : Thomas Sebeok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781475715590

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Native Languages of the Americas by Thomas Sebeok Pdf

Thirteen of the chapters that comprise the contents of this first volume of Native Languages of the A mericas were originally commissioned by the undersigned in his capacity as Editor of the fourteen volume series (1963-1976), Current Trends in Linguistics. All appeared, in 1973, under Part Three of the quadripartite Vol. 10, subtitled Linguistics in North America. Two additional chaplers are being held over for the volume to follow shortly, devoted to Central and South American lan guages and linguistics, where they more appropriately belong. A fourteenth chapter, on the" Historiography of native North A merican linguistics," was written similarly by invitation, for Vol. 13, subtitled Historiography of Linguistics, published in 1975. Both Volumes 10 and 13 were jointly financed by the United States National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, with an enhancing contribution to the former by the Canada Council. The generosity of these funding agencies was, of course, previously acknowledged in my respective Editor's Introductions to the two books mentioned, but cannot be repeated too often: without their welcome and timely assistance, the global project could scarcely have been realized on so comprehensive a scale. The Current Trends in Linguistics series was a long-term venture of Mouton Publishers, of The Hague, under the imaginative in-house direction of Peter de Rid der. Various spin-offs were foreseen, and some of them happily realized.

Author : Čestmír Loukotka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038580143

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Classification of South American Indian Languages by Čestmír Loukotka Pdf

Author : Leanne Hinton,Pamela Munro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520097896

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Studies in American Indian Languages by Leanne Hinton,Pamela Munro Pdf

This collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists today. Half of the essays treat Hokan languages, but Uto-Aztecan, Penutian, Muskogean, Iroquoian, Mayan, and other groups are also represented, with pieces on phonology, syntax, the lexicon, and discourse.

Author : David J. Costa
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803215142

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The Miami-Illinois Language by David J. Costa Pdf

The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region to the south of Lake Michigan in present-day Illinois and Indiana. The French and Indian War, followed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by massive influxes of white settlers into the Ohio River Valley, proved disastrous for both Native groups. Reduced in number by warfare and disease, the Illinois (now called the Peorias) along with half of the Miamis relocated first to Kansas and then to northeast Oklahoma, while the other half of the Miamis remained in northern Indiana. ø The Miami and the Illinois Native Americans speak closely related dialects of a language of the Algonquian language family. Linguist David J. Costa reconstructs key elements of their language from available historical sources, close textual analysis of surviving stories, and comparison with related Algonquian languages. The result is the first overview of the Miami-Illinois language.

Author : Jorge A. Suarez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983-04-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521296692

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The Mesoamerican Indian Languages by Jorge A. Suarez Pdf

At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. Professor Suárez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference.

Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:1296023743

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Handbook of American Indian Languages by Franz Boas Pdf

Author : Johannes Wilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037200008

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Loukotka's Classification of South American Indian Languages by Johannes Wilbert Pdf