The Mesoamerican Indian Languages

The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
Author: Jorge A. Suarez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1983-04-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521296694

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At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. Professor Suárez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference.

Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond

Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Author: Karen Dakin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027265712

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Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.

Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica

Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica
Author: Barbara Pfeiler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110923149

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This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).

Mesoamerican Voices

Mesoamerican Voices
Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2005-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316224295

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Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first collection to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality.

In the Language of Kings

In the Language of Kings
Author: Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 762
Release: 2002-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393324075

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The first anthology in any language to represent the full trajectory of this remarkable literature.

Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages

Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages
Author: Associate Professor of Linguistics Ivano Caponigro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0197518370

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This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala and one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but whose meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vastmajority of the languages in this volume, many of which are endangered and all of which are understudied, the work presented here represents the only published material on the subject.

Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America

Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America
Author: Cyrus Thomas
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781343025738

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