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Linguistics and archaeology in the Americas
the historization of language and society
xxiii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
edited by Eithne B. Carlin and Simon van de Kerke.
"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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 2