Author: Søren Wichmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Describes the phonological development of the Mixe-Zoquean (MZ) language and constructs a morphology for the MZ proto-language, for decipherers of Epi-Olmec writing and students of Mesoamerican prehistory. A section on comparative phonology outlines language classification and looks at developments in Mixean and Zoquean languages. The bulk of the book offers 2,218 cognate sets. Includes Spanish-MZ and English-Spanish word indices, but no subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Relationship Among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico
Author: Søren Wichmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Describes the phonological development of the Mixe-Zoquean (MZ) language and constructs a morphology for the MZ proto-language, for decipherers of Epi-Olmec writing and students of Mesoamerican prehistory. A section on comparative phonology outlines language classification and looks at developments in Mixean and Zoquean languages. The bulk of the book offers 2,218 cognate sets. Includes Spanish-MZ and English-Spanish word indices, but no subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Describes the phonological development of the Mixe-Zoquean (MZ) language and constructs a morphology for the MZ proto-language, for decipherers of Epi-Olmec writing and students of Mesoamerican prehistory. A section on comparative phonology outlines language classification and looks at developments in Mixean and Zoquean languages. The bulk of the book offers 2,218 cognate sets. Includes Spanish-MZ and English-Spanish word indices, but no subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical Distribution
Author: Cyrus Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Author: CYRUS THOMAS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact
Author: Björn Wiemer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110271974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The book is a major contribution to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between grammaticalization and language contact on a broad empirical basis.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110271974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The book is a major contribution to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between grammaticalization and language contact on a broad empirical basis.
A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca
Author: Lynda Boudreault
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110766272
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
This work is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Sierra Popoluca, a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in Veracruz, Mexico. This detailed description and analysis includes an overview of the language and its family, its typological features and its phonology. The grammar also provides an overview of the word classes, including verbs, nouns, relational nouns/postpositions, adjectives, adverbs, numbers, and formative types. The bulk of this grammar is devoted to the morphosyntax of Sierra Popoluca, including nouns and nominal morphology, verbs and verbal morphology, and the mechanisms for expressing tense, aspect, mood, and modality. An agglutinating, polysynthetic, head-marking language with ergative-absolutive alignment and sensitivity to animacy and saliency hierarchies, Sierra Popoluca has a number of strategies to form complex predicates, which include verb serialization, noun incorporation, and dependent verb constructions. These complex predicate formation strategies and sentence-level syntax are also described here. A compilation of interlinearized texts appears in the appendix. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of the Sierra Popoluca grammar.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110766272
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
This work is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Sierra Popoluca, a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in Veracruz, Mexico. This detailed description and analysis includes an overview of the language and its family, its typological features and its phonology. The grammar also provides an overview of the word classes, including verbs, nouns, relational nouns/postpositions, adjectives, adverbs, numbers, and formative types. The bulk of this grammar is devoted to the morphosyntax of Sierra Popoluca, including nouns and nominal morphology, verbs and verbal morphology, and the mechanisms for expressing tense, aspect, mood, and modality. An agglutinating, polysynthetic, head-marking language with ergative-absolutive alignment and sensitivity to animacy and saliency hierarchies, Sierra Popoluca has a number of strategies to form complex predicates, which include verb serialization, noun incorporation, and dependent verb constructions. These complex predicate formation strategies and sentence-level syntax are also described here. A compilation of interlinearized texts appears in the appendix. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of the Sierra Popoluca grammar.
A Grammar of Chiapas Zoque
Author: Jan Terje Faarlund
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199693218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book provides a description of Chiapas Zoque, the language of the descendents of Mexico's oldest known civilization and whose inscriptions are the oldest known linguistic documents in Mesoamerica. This record of an unusual, vibrant, but critically endangered language will be an important resource for linguists of all theoretical persuasions.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199693218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book provides a description of Chiapas Zoque, the language of the descendents of Mexico's oldest known civilization and whose inscriptions are the oldest known linguistic documents in Mesoamerica. This record of an unusual, vibrant, but critically endangered language will be an important resource for linguists of all theoretical persuasions.
The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region
Author: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816535159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
"One of the most complete collections of essays on U.S.-Mexico border studies"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816535159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
"One of the most complete collections of essays on U.S.-Mexico border studies"--Provided by publisher.
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080877753
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. - Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and dispute - Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose - Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage - Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080877753
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. - Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and dispute - Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose - Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage - Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197673465
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197673465
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.
The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
Author: Jorge A. Suarez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296694
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296694
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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.