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Author: Jorge A. Suarez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-04-14
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521296694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt 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: Jorge Alberto Suárez Savini
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Dakin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-06-30
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9027265712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.
Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-11-07
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1316224295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first collection to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality.
Author: Barbara Pfeiler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-12-22
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 3110923149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).
Author: Cyrus Thomas
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-09
Total Pages: 762
ISBN-13: 9780393324075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first anthology in any language to represent the full trajectory of this remarkable literature.
Author: Cyrus Thomas
Publisher: Shorey's Bookstore
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Associate Professor of Linguistics Ivano Caponigro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 0197518370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala and one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but whose meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vastmajority of the languages in this volume, many of which are endangered and all of which are understudied, the work presented here represents the only published material on the subject.
Author: Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Publisher: Civilization of the American I
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780806122885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her book, Patricia Anawalt describes through text and more than 350 illustrations and charts what the Indians of Middle America were wearing when Corts and his conquistadors arrived in the New World in 1519. The costumes reveal a great deal about those who wore them. To the peoples of Middle America, dress was identity; even a god had to don his proper attire. To the Aztecs and their neighbors, for example, the wearing of appropriate clothing was strictly controlled by both custom and law. An individuals attire immediately identified not only culture affiliation but rank and status as well. Since each group dressed in a distinctive and characteristic manner, a great deal of ethnographic and historical information can be gleaned from a study of what those groups wore.
