Die Indischen Sprachen
Author : Jan Gonda
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1971
Category : India
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Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1971
Category : India
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Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195349830
Native 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.
Author : Roger Williams
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1827
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Author : John Eliot
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1822
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Author : Victor Golla
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0520389670
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
Author : Wallace L. Chafe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110867699
No detailed description available for "American Indian languages and American linguistics".
Author : William Bright
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110871637
The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language specialists are providing significant assistance in the making of this multi-volume series.
Author : John ELIOT (called the Apostle of the Indians.)
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 1822
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Author : Klaus Bruhn
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120806818
The book is meant to commemorate a great German Scholar Prof. Dr. Ludwig Alsdorf and to acquaint a wider public with his academic work in the field of Indian Studies. The book depicts many sided interests in Indian Studies comprising Vedic and Classical Sanskrit texts as well as Buddhist Pali literature and Jaina Apabhramsa living knowledge of the historical, religious, artistic and literary developments on the subcontinent.
Author : Rudolf Westphal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108061397
Best remembered for his contribution to the study of Greek music and metre, the German classical philologist Rudolf Westphal (1826─92) had originally studied theology at the University of Marburg before turning his attention to comparative linguistics. He learnt Sanskrit and Arabic and took a keen interest in the Indo-Germanic (Indo-European) languages as well as Semitic grammar. In the late 1850s and early 1860s he joined his friend and fellow classical philologist August Rossbach (1823-98) at the University of Breslau (Wrocław) and later taught at Moscow's Imperial Lyceum. In this work, first published in 1873, Westphal provides the reader with an overview of the Indo-European languages and their sounds. He then gives an extensive account of Indo-European verbs by focusing on the roots derived from Latin and Sanskrit.