UID:
almahu_9949701740502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047427087
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles v. 2
Content:
The contributors to this volume, an international group of leading specialists, guide us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies that lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, the forerunning specialist in Native American studies of Meso and South America, and Professor of Amerindian Studies at Leiden University. The contributors focus on three larger regions, the Andes, Amazonia, Meso-America and the Circum-Caribbean region, giving us a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research trends that illuminate the dynamicity and historicity of the Americas, in migratory movements, contact situations, grouping and re-grouping of identities and the linguistic results thereof. This book is a must-have for all scholars of the American continent.
Note:
"This book has been written by a select group of leading international scholars of Amerindian studies in honour of Professor Willem Adelaar on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 2008."--Pref.
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Preliminary Material --
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1. Linguistic Reconstruction of Elements of Prehistoric Tupi Culture /
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2. Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices in Tupi-Guarani Languages /
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3. Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing /
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4. Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing /
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5. Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl /
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6. The Ever-Dynamic Caribbean: Exploring New Approaches to Unraveling Social Networks in the Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Periods /
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7. 'Why do they steal our phonemes?' Inventing the Survival of the Cañari Language (Ecuador) /
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8. Lenguas e Ídentidades Étnicas /
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9. Sobre el Morfo Vacío -ni del Quechua /
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10. The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua /
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11. O 'Caduco' e o 'Frustrativo' nas Línguas Baniwa do Içana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) /
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12. Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) /
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13. Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumarí /
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14. Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Kaingang /
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Subject Index --
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List of Contributors.
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Articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas: The Historization of Language and Society Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010, ISBN 9789004173620
Language:
English
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