Author: Mercedes Sedano Publisher: Fondo Editorial Humanidades ISBN: 9789800023068 Category : Spanish language Languages : es Pages : 868
Book Description
"El título del libro recoge de manera muy acertada el espíritu de la obra, la cual reúne un conjunto de artículos que reflejan el quehacer lingüístico de sus autores. El volumen cubre los más variados aspectos del estudio del lenguaje a través de sus cinco secciones: Fonética, fonología y entonación; Gramática; Léxico y semántica; Discurso y pragmática; Historia, sociedad, teoría y metodología."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004273689 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 421
Book Description
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas through a specific focus on material culture and indigenous agency.
Author: Harriet E. Manelis Klein Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292737327 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 871
Book Description
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.
Author: Arie Boomert Publisher: ISBN: 9789088903533 Category : Indigenous peoples Languages : en Pages : 0
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Pre-Columbian and historic Amerindian archaeology -- Primary historic sources and maps -- Various historical and anthropological accounts -- Amerindian cultural heritage -- Appendix. Institutions and museums with significant archaeological holdings from Trinidad and Tobago -- Index -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- Blank Page -- Blank Page
Author: Basil Reid Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351169181 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 473
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Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology. The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, animal domestication, dietary profiles, and landscape modifications. Tried-and-true and novel analytical techniques are used to tease out aspects of the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean database that inform the complex and often-subtle processes of domestication under varying socio-environmental conditions. Contributors discuss their findings within multiple constructs such as neolithisation, social interaction, trade, mobility, social complexity, migration, colonisation, and historical ecology. Multiple data sources are used which include but are not restricted to rock art, cooking pits and pots, stable isotopes, dental calculus and pathologies, starch grains, and proxies for past environmental conditions. Given its multi-disciplinary approaches, this volume should be of immense value to both researchers and students of Caribbean archaeology, biogeography, ethnobotany, zooarchaeology, historical ecology, agriculture, environmental studies, history, and other related fields.
Author: Willem F. H. Adelaar Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 113945112X Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 746
Book Description
The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. This linguistic diversity results from a complex historical background, comprising periods of greater communication between different peoples and languages, and periods of fragmentation and individual development. The Languages of the Andes documents in a single volume the indigenous languages spoken and formerly spoken in this linguistically rich region, as well as in adjacent areas. Grouping the languages into different cultural spheres, it describes their characteristics in terms of language typology, language contact, and the social perspectives of present-day languages. The authors provide both historical and contemporary information, and illustrate the languages with detailed grammatical sketches. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of linguistics and anthropology alike.
Author: Karen Dakin Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027265712 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 451
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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.
Author: Elizabeth M. Brumfiel Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521545846 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 250
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This volume examines how factional competition in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires.
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