Classification of South American Indian Languages
Title | Classification of South American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Čestmír Loukotka |
Publisher | University of California, Latin American Center |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
The Grouping of South American Indian Languages
Title | The Grouping of South American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ritchie Key |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Indians of South America |
ISBN |
American Indian Languages
Title | American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 527 |
Release | 2000-09-21 |
Genre | 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.
Classification of South American Indian Languages
Title | Classification of South American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes WILBERT |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Loukotka's Classification of South American Indian Languages
Title | Loukotka's Classification of South American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Wilbert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Indians of South America |
ISBN |
South American Indian Languages
Title | South American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet E. Manelis Klein |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 871 |
Release | 2011-07-20 |
Genre | 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.
The Indigenous Languages of South America
Title | The Indigenous Languages of South America PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 765 |
Release | 2012-01-27 |
Genre | 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.