The Grouping of South American Indian Languages
Author : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN :
Author : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN :
Author : Loretta O'Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139867989
In 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.
Author : Harriet E. Manelis Klein
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292737327
This 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.
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1997
Category : America
ISBN : 0195140508
Native 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.
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311025803X
The 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.
Author : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1512803065
South 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.
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615353658
Rich with photos, maps, and sidebars, Native Peoples of the Americas covers native peoples from the past and present. Readers will learn about early civilizations, languages, religions, arts, and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States, Canada, and Middle and South America
Author : Patience Epps
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110432730
The goal of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive resource on the Amazonian languages that synthesizes a diverse body of work by a highly international group of linguists. It will provide a review of the current state of the art, thus laying the groundwork for future scholarship in this important area. Volume 2 will focus on theory-neutral grammatical descriptions of smaller Amazonian language families.
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9783110124217