A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language. A New Ed
Author : John Eliot
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1822
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Author : John Eliot
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1822
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Author : John ELIOT (called the Apostle of the Indians.)
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1822
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Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,56 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 : James Hammond Trumbull
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : George Brinley
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 1878
Category : America
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Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317851099
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author : Marcin Kilarski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725897X
The languages indigenous to North America are characterized by a remarkable genetic and typological diversity. Based on the premise that linguistic examples play a key role in the origin and transmission of ideas within linguistics and across disciplines, this book examines the history of approaches to these languages through the lens of some of their most prominent properties. These properties include consonant inventories and the near absence of labials in Iroquoian languages, gender in Algonquian languages, verbs for washing in the Iroquoian language Cherokee and terms for snow and related phenomena in Eskimo-Aleut languages. By tracing the interpretations of the four examples by European and American scholars, the author illustrates their role in both lay and professional contexts as a window onto unfamiliar languages and cultures, thus allowing a more holistic view of the history of language study in North America.
Author : Sylvain Auroux
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311019421X
Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first synthesized by Humboldt, as well as the development of various other non-historical endeavours in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, such as language and psychology, semantics, phonetics, and dialectology, receive ample attention.
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 1891
Category : America
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Author : JAMES CONSTANTINE PILLING
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Page : 890 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 1891
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