A Descriptive Grammar of San Bartolomé Zoogocho Zapotec
Author : Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Zapotecan languages
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Author : Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Zapotecan languages
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Author : Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027211981
Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.
Author : Juan José Bueno Holle
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
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Category :
ISBN : 3961101299
This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations motivate the study: Strong documentation and a relatively large and active speaker community create a unique opportunity to document information structure in Isthmus Zapotec and to study the language as it is used by speakers in everyday life;As a tonal and verb-initial language, the examination of Isthmus Zapotec represents a chance to explore the possible combinations of tone, intonation, morphology and verb-initial syntax that may occur in the coding of information structure; andThe close analysis of spontaneous speech in an endangered language contributes to our theoretical understanding of information structure and informs our knowledge of language documentation practices and revitalization efforts. Overall, the analysis presented here demonstrates the value and need for information structure studies to document and analyze naturally-occurring data.
Author : Natalie Operstein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027267782
Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant theoretical interest, detailed descriptions of valence-changing phenomena in Zapotec are rare, comparative studies are practically non-existent, and Zapotec contributions to the general typology of valence-changing phenomena still remain largely untapped. The present volume addresses this imbalance by being the first to explore Zapotec valence-changing constructions in depth, and to highlight their broad comparative, typological, and theoretical significance. This book contains both write-ups of contributions to the Special Session on Valence-Changing Devices in Zapotecan (annual meeting of SSILA, 2012) and specially commissioned chapters. It will be of interest to Zapotecanists, Otomangueanists, Mesoamericanists, typologists, morphologists, syntacticians, semanticians, and general linguists with an interest in valence-changing phenomena, and may also be used as supplementary reading in field methods and typology courses.
Author : Sheikh Umarr Kamarah
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Sierra Leone
ISBN :
Author : Joyce Marcus
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0915703939
""Zapotec is one of the major hieroglyphic writing systems of ancient Mesoamerica. This volume explains the origins and spread of Zapotec writing, the role of Zapotec writing in the changing political agendas of the region, and the decline of hieroglyphic writing in the Valley of Oaxaca."--Provided by publisher"--
Author : Harvey B. Sarles
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Tzotzil language
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Author : David Tavárez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1477324518
In 1702, after the brutal suppression of a Zapotec revolt, the bishop of Oaxaca proclaimed an amnesty for idolatry in exchange for collective confessions. To evade conflict, Northern Zapotec communities denounced ritual specialists and surrendered sacred songs and 102 divinatory manuals, which preserve cosmological accounts, exchanges with divine beings, and protocols of pre-Columbian origin that strongly resemble sections of the Codex Borgia. These texts were sent to Spain as evidence of failed Dominican evangelization efforts, and there they remained, in oblivion, until the 1960s. In this book, David Tavárez dives deep into this formidable archive of ritual and divinatory manuals, the largest calendar corpus in the colonial Americas, and emerges with a rich understanding of Indigenous social and cultural history, Mesoamerican theories of cosmos and time, and Zapotec ancestor worship. Drawing on his knowledge of Zapotec and Nahuatl, two decades of archival research, and a decade of fieldwork, Tavárez dissects Mesoamerican calendars as well as Native resistance and accommodation to the colonial conquest of time, while also addressing entangled transatlantic histories and shining new light on texts still connected to contemporary observances in Zapotec communities.
Author : Harvey B. Sarles
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Tzotzil language
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Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0199665001
This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication, an approach that has far-reaching theoretical consequences for issues such as ease of processing, language universals, complexity, and competing and cooperating principles.