| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Brill's studies in the Indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 2 |
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Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This book offers a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research from the Caribbean and Meso America, through Amazonia and the Andes to Argentina, ranging from historical comparative through descriptive and socio-linguistics to new discoveries in archaeological research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
"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"--Preface |
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Articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Adelaar, Willem F. H.
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| SUBJECT |
Adelaar, Willem F. H. fast |
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Grammar
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Indians of North America -- Languages -- Grammar
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Indians of South America -- Languages.
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Indians of North America -- Languages.
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Language and culture.
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Archaeology.
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Archaeology
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archaeology.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
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Archaeology
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Indians of North America -- Languages
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Indians of North America -- Languages -- Grammar
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Indians of South America -- Languages
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Grammar
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Language and culture
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Indianentalen.
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Indianen.
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Etnoarcheologie.
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Midden-Amerika.
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Zuid-Amerika.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlin, Eithne
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Kerke, Simon van de
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| LC no. |
2010005005 |
| ISBN |
9789047427087 |
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9047427084 |
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1283851792 |
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9781283851794 |
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