Format:
XXIII, 276 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9789004173620
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas 2
Content:
Linguistic Reconstruction of Elements of Prehistoric Tupi Culture / Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues -- Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices in Tupi-Guarani Languages / Wolf Dietrich -- Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing / Nikolai Grube -- Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez -- Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl / Michel Launey - The Ever-Dynamic Caribbean: Exploring New Approaches to Unraveling Social Networks in the Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Periods / Corinne L. Hofman and Eithne B. Carlin -- 'Why do they steal our phonemes?': Inventing the Survival of the Cañari Language (Ecuador) / Rosaleen Howard -- Lenguas e ídentidades étnicas / -- Xavier Albó -- Sobre el Morfo Vacío -ni del Quechua / Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino -- The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua / Pieter Muysken -- O 'Caduco' e o 'Frustrativo' nas Línguas Baniwa do Içana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) / Gerald Taylor --Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) / Ana Fernández Garay -- Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumari / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Kaingang / W. Leo Wetzels
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
,
Linguistic reconstruction of elements of prehistoric Tupi culture
,
Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices in TupiGuarani Languages
,
Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
,
Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing
,
Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl
,
Networks in the precolonial and early colonial periods
,
'Why do they steal our phonemes?' Inventing the Survival of the Canari Language (Ecuador)
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Lenguas e Identidades Etnicas
,
sobre el morfo vacio ni del quechua
,
The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua
,
O 'Caduco' e o 'Frustrativo' nas Linguas Baniwa do Icana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil)
,
Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumari
,
Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Xaingang
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Beitr. teilw. engl., teilw. span. teilw. portug.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Indianersprachen
;
Historische Sprachwissenschaft
;
Historische Anthropologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Carlin, Eithne