The Indigenous Languages of the Americas

History and Classification
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-767346-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1030 g

The Indigenous Languages of the Americas takes stock of what is known about the history and classification of these languages and language families. It identifies the gaps in knowledge and puts them into perspective, and it assesses differences of opinion. It also resolves some issues and makes new contributions of its own.

The nine chapters of the book deal incisively with the major themes involving these languages: the classification and history of the Indigenous languages of North American, Middle American (Mexico and Central America), and South American; difficulties involving names of the languages; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified, phantom, fake, and spurious languages in the Americas; recent hypotheses of remote linguistic relationships; the linguistic areas of the Americas; contact languages, including pidgins, lingua francas, and mixed languages; and loanwords and other new words in the native languages of the Americas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Lyle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- Phonetic symbols

- Abbreviations

- Chapter 1. Introduction

- Chapter 2. North American Indian Languages North of Mexico

- Chapter 3. Middle American languages (Mexico and Central America)

- Chapter 4. Indigenous Languages of South American

- Chapter 5. Unclassified and Spurious Languages

- Chapter 6. Distant Linguistic Relationships

- Chapter 7. Linguistic Areas of the Americas

- Chapter 8. Contact Languages

- Chapter 9. Loanwords and other New Words in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Lyle Campbell, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. His specializations include Indigenous languages of the Americas, historical linguistic documentation, fieldwork, and language typology. He has held appointments in Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish.