The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
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The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
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Author : Jorge A. Suarez
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-04-14
The Mesoamerican Indian Languages written by Jorge A. Suarez and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-04-14 with Foreign Language Study categories.
At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. Professor Suárez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference.
Indian Languages Of Mexico And Central America And Their Geographical Distribution
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Author : Cyrus Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
Indian Languages Of Mexico And Central America And Their Geographical Distribution written by Cyrus Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Indians of Central America categories.
Learning Indigenous Languages Child Language Acquisition In Mesoamerica
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Author : Barbara Pfeiler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-12-22
Learning Indigenous Languages Child Language Acquisition In Mesoamerica written by Barbara Pfeiler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).
American Indian Languages
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Author : Shirley Silver
language : en
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1997
American Indian Languages written by Shirley Silver and has been published by Tucson : University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes.
Language Contact And Change In Mesoamerica And Beyond
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Author : Karen Dakin
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Language Contact And Change In Mesoamerica And Beyond written by Karen Dakin and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.
American Indian Languages
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Author : Lyle Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-21
American Indian Languages written by Lyle Campbell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Indian Languages Of Mexico And Central America And Their Geographical Distribution
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Author : Cyrus Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Shorey's Bookstore
Release Date : 1975
Indian Languages Of Mexico And Central America And Their Geographical Distribution written by Cyrus Thomas and has been published by Shorey's Bookstore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Studies In Mesoamerican Linguistics
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Author : Alice Schlichter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Studies In Mesoamerican Linguistics written by Alice Schlichter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Mexican Indigenous Languages At The Dawn Of The Twenty First Century
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Author : Margarita Hidalgo
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-08-22
Mexican Indigenous Languages At The Dawn Of The Twenty First Century written by Margarita Hidalgo and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume explores the reversing language shift (RLS) theory in the Mexican scenario from various viewpoints: The sociohistorical perspective delves into the dynamics of power that emerged in the Mexican colony as a result of the presence of Spanish. It examines the processes of external and internal Indianization affecting the early European protagonists and the varied dimensions of language shift and maintenance of the Mexican colonial period. The Mexican case sheds light upon language contact from the time in which Western civilization came into contact with the Mesoamerican peoples, for the encounter began with a demographic catastrophe that motivated a recovery mission. While the recovery of Mexican indigenous languages (MIL) was remarkable, RLS ended after fifty years of abundant productivity in MIL. Since then, the slow process of recovery is related to demographic changes, socioreligious movements, rebellion, confrontation, and survival strategies that have fostered language maintenance with bilingualism and language shift with culture preservation. The causes of the Chiapas uprising are analyzed in connection with the language attitudes of the indigenous peoples, while language policy is discussed in reference to the new Law of Linguistic Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (2003). A quantitative classification of the MIL is offered with an overview of their geographic distribution, trends of macrosocietal bilingualism, use in the home domain, and permanence in the original Mesoamerican settlements. Innovative models of bilingual education are presented along with relevant data on several communities and the philosophies and methodologies justifying the programs. A model of Mazahua language use is presented along the Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale.
Bibliography Of Mayan Languages And Linguistics
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Author : Institute for Mesoamerican studies (Albany, NY)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Bibliography Of Mayan Languages And Linguistics written by Institute for Mesoamerican studies (Albany, NY) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.