Classification of South American Indian Languages
Author: Čestmír Loukotka
Publisher: University of California, Latin American Center
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13:
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The Indigenous Languages of South America
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-01-27
Total Pages: 765
ISBN-13: 311025803X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
American Indian Languages
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-09-21
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 0195349830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative 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.
South American Indian Languages
Author: Harriet E. Manelis Klein
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011-07-20
Total Pages: 871
ISBN-13: 0292737327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Origin of the Earth and Moon
Author: Shirley Silver
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780816521395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
American Indian Languages
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 0195140508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
The Native Languages of South America
Author: Loretta O'Connor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-20
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1139867989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
The Native Languages of South America
Author: Loretta O'Connor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-20
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1107044286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Loukotka's Classification of South American Indian Languages
Author: Johannes Wilbert
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage Change in South American Indian Languages
Author: Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1512803065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth 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.
