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The Origin and Diversification of Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

The Origin and Diversification of Language

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language. This volume, left nearly completed at his death and edited posthumously by Joel F. Sherzer, is his last major study of this difficult subject.Swadesh discusses the simple qualities of human speech also present in animal language, and establishes distinctively human techniques of expression by comparing the common features that are found in modern and ancient languages. He treats the diversification of language not only by isolating root words in different languages, but also by dealing with sound systems, with forms of compositi...

Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology

Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem the personalities of their dominant figures, their relations with other disciplines and intellectual current. The two disciplines have also varied in their interrelation with each other and the society about them. Institutional arrangements have reflected the varying degrees of kinship, kithship, and separation. Such relationships themselves form a topic that is central to a history of linguistic anthropology yet marginal to a self-contained history of linguistics or anthropology as either would be conceived by most authors. There exists not only a subject matter for a history of linguistic anthropology, but also a definite need.

Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

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 reco...

Latin American Indian Literatures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

Latin American Indian Literatures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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LSA Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

LSA Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Las lenguas de México, I
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 123

Las lenguas de México, I

De una manera breve se plasma en esta obra, la evolución de la lingüística indígena, así como la clasificación y tipificación de las lenguas y su estudio.

Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1414

Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1959
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Las lenguas de México, II
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 170

Las lenguas de México, II

Desde el primer cuarto del siglo XX se hicieron esfuerzos por educar a los grupos indígenas, se utilizaron métodos basados en las ciencias antropológicas y la lingüística ha permitido elaborar materiales educativos directamente en las múltiples lenguas aborígenes y métodos más apropiados para la enseñanza.

Proceedings of the ... Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 634

Proceedings of the ... Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1963
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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