The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
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Author | : Jorge A. Suarez |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1983-04-14 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521296694 |
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.
Author | : Jorge Alberto Suárez Savini |
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Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Karen Dakin |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2017-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027265712 |
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 | : Barbara Pfeiler |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2011-12-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110923149 |
This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).
Author | : Cyrus Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Indians of Central America |
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Author | : Miguel Leon-Portilla |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393324075 |
The first anthology in any language to represent the full trajectory of this remarkable literature.
Author | : Matthew Restall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2005-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316224295 |
Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first collection to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality.
Author | : Cyrus Thomas |
Publisher | : Shorey's Bookstore |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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Author | : Margarita Hidalgo |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110197677 |
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 recovery of Mexican indigenous languages (MIL) was remarkable, RLS ended after fifty years of abundant productivity in MIL. Since then, the slow process of recovery is related to demographic changes, socioreligious movements, rebellion, confrontation, and survival strategies that have fostered language maintenance with bilingualism and language shift with culture preservation. The causes of the Chiapas uprising are analyzed in connection with the language attitudes of the indigenous peoples, while language policy is discussed in reference to the new Law of Linguistic Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (2003). A quantitative classification of the MIL is offered with an overview of their geographic distribution, trends of macrosocietal bilingualism, use in the home domain, and permanence in the original Mesoamerican settlements. Innovative models of bilingual education are presented along with relevant data on several communities and the philosophies and methodologies justifying the programs. A model of Mazahua language use is presented along the Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale.
Author | : Associate Professor of Linguistics Ivano Caponigro |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0197518370 |
This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala and one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but whose meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vastmajority of the languages in this volume, many of which are endangered and all of which are understudied, the work presented here represents the only published material on the subject.