Linguistics and archaeology in the Americas
Subtitle: the historization of language and society
By: edited by Eithne B. Carlin and Simon van de Kerke.
Contributors: Carlin, Eithne.; Kerke, Simon van de.
Series: Brill's studies in the Indigenous languages of the Americas; v. 2
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004173620
Subjects: Adelaar, Willem F. H; Indians of South America -- Languages -- Grammar; Indians of North America -- Languages -- Grammar; Indians of South America -- Languages; Indians of North America -- Languages; Language and culture; Archaeology
Notes: "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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Linguistic reconstruction of elements of prehistoric Tupi culture / Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues; title: Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices in TupiGuarani Languages / Wolf Dietrich; title: Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing / Nikolai Grube; title: Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez; title: Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl / Michel Launey - The EverDynamic Caribbean: Exploring New Approaches to Unraveling Social; title: Networks in the precolonial and early colonial periods / Corinne L. Hofman and Eithne B. Carlin; title: 'Why do they steal our phonemes?' Inventing the Survival of the Canari Language (Ecuador) / Rosaleen Howard; title: Lenguas e Identidades Etnicas /; title: Xavier albo; title: sobre el morfo vacio ni del quechua / Rodolfo CerronPalomino; title: The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua / Pieter Muysken; title: O 'Caduco' e o 'Frustrativo' nas Linguas Baniwa do Icana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) / Gerald Taylor; title: Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) / Ana Fernandez Garay; title: Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumari / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; title: Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Xaingang / W. Leo Wetzels.