Polynesian and American Linguistic Connections
Author: Mary Ritchie Key
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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Author: Mary Ritchie Key
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Langdon
Publisher: Nicholson
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Terry L. Jones
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2011-01-16
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0759120064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.
Author: Viktor Krupa
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-03-18
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 3110899280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "Polynesian Languages".
Author: Walburga von Raffler-Engel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9027239533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of language origin has fascinated people for years. The contributions in the present book stem primarely from the papers presented at the Third International Meeting of the Language Origins Society (LOS) held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1988. The contributors approach the problem not only from the viewpoint of linguistics, but also from that of anatomy, physiology, social sciences, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative zoology, general biology, ethology, evolutionary biology and psychology.
Author: Jeffrey C. Marck
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrea Ballesteros - Danel
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 3031648773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert J. Schütz
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2020-05-31
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0824869834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook’s naturalist and philologist William Anderson, ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia (the inspiration for the Hawaiian Mission), the American lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players. The account begins in prehistory, placing the probable origins of the ancestor of Polynesian languages in mainland Asia. An evolving family tree reflects the linguistic changes that took place as these people moved east. The current versions are examined from a Hawaiian-centered point of view, comparing the sound system of the language with those of its major relatives in the Polynesian triangle. More recent historical topics begin with the first written samples of a Polynesian language in 1616, which led to the birth of the idea of a widespread language family. The next topic is how the Hawaiian alphabet was developed. The first efforts suffered from having too many letters, a problem that was solved in 1826 through brilliant reasoning by its framers and their Hawaiian consultants. The opposite problem was that the alphabet didn’t have enough letters: analysts either couldn’t hear or misinterpreted the glottal stop and long vowels. The end product of the development of the alphabet—literacy—is more complicated than some statistics would have us believe. As for its success or failure, both points of view, from contemporary observers, are presented. Still, it cannot be denied that literacy had a tremendous and lasting effect on Hawaiian culture. The last part of the book concentrates on the most-used Hawaiian reference works—dictionaries. It describes current projects that combine print and manuscript collections on a searchable website. These projects can include the growing body of material that is being made available through recent and ongoing research. As for the future, a proposed monolingual dictionary would allow users to avoid an English bridge to understanding, and move directly to a definition that includes Hawaiian cultural features and a Hawaiian worldview.
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0197673465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.
Author: Jan Wind
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 902723955X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches from many disciplines that are used to unravel the mystery of the origin of language: linguistics, anatomy, physiology, paleoanthropology, neuropsychology, physical anthropology, evolutionary biology and psychology.