Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl

Author: Agnieszka Brylak

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-11-23

Total Pages: 869

ISBN-13: 3110591928

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The dictionary expands on the original idea of Karttunen and Lockhart to map the usage of loans in Nahuatl, by using a much larger and diversified corpus of sources, and by including contextual use, missing in earlier studies. Most importantly, these sources enrich the colonial corpus with modern data – significantly expanding on our knowledge on language continuity and change.

Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl. A Contextual Dictionary
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl. A Contextual Dictionary

Author: Agnieszka Brylak

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 890

ISBN-13:

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The dictionary expands on the original idea of Karttunen and Lockhart to map the usage of loans in Nahuatl, by using a much larger and diversified corpus of sources, and by including contextual use, missing in earlier studies. Most importantly, these sources enrich the colonial corpus with modern data ? significantly expanding on our knowledge on language continuity and change.

Nahuatl Nations
Nahuatl Nations

Author: Magnus Pharao Hansen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-08-09

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0197746160

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Nahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nahuatl language and the Mexican Nation that claims it as an important national symbol. Author Magnus Pharao Hansen studies how this relation has been shaped by history and how it plays out today in Indigenous Nahua towns, regions, and educational institutions, and in the Mexican diaspora. He argues that Indigenous languages are likely to remain vital as long as they used as languages of political community, and they also protect the community's sovereignty by functioning as a barrier that restricts access to the participation for outsiders. Semiotic sovereignty therefore becomes a key concept for understanding how Indigenous communities can maintain both their political and linguistic vitality. While the Mexican Nation seeks to expropriate Indigenous semiotic resources in order to improve its brand on an international marketplace, Indigenous communities may employ them in resistance to state domination.

An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl
An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl

Author: Frances E. Karttunen

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780806124216

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This is a comprehensive modern dictionary of the major indigenous language of Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbors. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with Europeans, and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl beginning in the mid-sixteenth century and continuing to the present.

Nahuatl Theater: Death and life in colonial Nahua Mexico
Nahuatl Theater: Death and life in colonial Nahua Mexico

Author: Barry D. Sell

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780806136332

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Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico presents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. Five are morality plays. Presenting Christian views of moral reform, death, judgment, and punishment for sin, they reveal how these themes were adapted into Nahua culture. The other two plays dramatize biblical narratives: the stories of Abraham and Isaac and of the three wise men. In this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful transcriptions of the Nahuatl as well as new English translations of these remarkable dramas. Accompanying the plays are four interpretive essays and a foreword that broaden our understanding of these rare works. This volume is the first in a four-volume set entitled Nahuatl Theater, edited by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart

An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl
An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Author: Michel Launey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-07-11

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1139492764

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Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar and vocabulary. It is divided into 35 chapters, beginning with basic syntax and progressing gradually to more complex structures. Each grammatical concept is illustrated clearly with examples, exercises and passages for translation. A key is provided to allow students to check their answers. By far the most approachable textbook of Nahuatl available, this book will be an excellent teaching tool both for classroom use and for readers pursuing independent study of the language. It will be an invaluable resource to anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, archaeologists and linguists alike.