Linguistics and archaeology in the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : the historization of language and society / / edited by Eithne B. Carlin and Simon van de Kerke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817575003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-85179-2; 90-474-2708-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Collana: Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; ; v. 2
• Altri autori (Persone): CarlinEithne; KerkeSimon van de
• Disciplina: 498
• Soggetti: Archaeology; Indians of North America - Languages - Grammar; Indians of North America - Languages; Indians of South America - Languages - Grammar; Indians of South America - Languages; Language and culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "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."--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- 1. Linguistic Reconstruction of Elements of Prehistoric Tupi Culture / Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues -- 2. Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices in Tupi-Guarani Languages / Wolf Dietrich -- 3. Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing / Nikolai Grube -- 4. Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez -- 5. Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl / Michel Launey -- 6. 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 -- 7. ‘Why do they steal our phonemes?’ Inventing the Survival of the Cañari Language (Ecuador) / Rosaleen Howard -- 8. Lenguas e Ídentidades Étnicas / Xavier Albó -- ; 9. Sobre el Morfo Vacío -ni del Quechua / Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino -- 10. The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua / Pieter Muysken -- 11. O ‘Caduco’ e o ‘Frustrativo’ nas Línguas Baniwa do Içana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) / Gerald Taylor -- 12. Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) / Ana Fernández Garay -- 13. Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumarí / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- 14. Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Kaingang / W. Leo Wetzels -- Subject Index -- List of Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: The contributors to this volume, an international group of leading specialists, guide us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies that lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, the forerunning specialist in Native American studies of Meso and South America, and Professor of Amerindian Studies at Leiden University. The contributors focus on three larger regions, the Andes, Amazonia, Meso-America and the Circum-Caribbean region, giving us a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research trends that illuminate the dynamicity and historicity of the Americas, in migratory movements, contact situations, grouping and re-grouping of identities and the linguistic results thereof. This book is a must-have for all scholars of the American continent.