Languages of the pre-Columbian Antilles
By: Julian Granberry, Gary S. Vescelius
Contributors: Vescelius, Gary S
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Indians of the West Indies -- Antilles, Greater -- Languages; Taino language -- Antilles, Greater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133-148) and index
Table of contents: title: The pre-Columbian Antilles : an overview of research and sources; title: The languages of the Greater Antilles : a documentary view; title: Anomalous non-Taíno language data from the Greater Antilles; title: The primary archaeological correlates of language data from the Greater Antilles and their outliers; title: Languages of the Greater Antilles : a working hypothesis; title: The languages of the Lesser Antilles and their archaeological correlates; title: The toponymic method and the derivation of Taíno morphemes (with a note on Macorís and Ciboney toponyms); title: Toponyms and the settlement of the Lucayan Islands : a methodological test; title: Some principles of Taíno grammar; title: A short lexicon of Taíno morphemes and lexical forms; title: Antillean languages : an afterview