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American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4)
de Campbell, Lyle
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Oxford University Press. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Clean pages, tight binding, glos. 9x7x1. First paperback editionClean pages, tight binding, gloss soft cover with unbroken spine
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Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history ofNative American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere wassettled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg...
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- Título
- American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4)
- Autor
- Campbell, Lyle
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Clean pages, tight binding, glos
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Paperback Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195140508
- ISBN 13
- 9780195140507
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
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- Oxford
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- August 28, 2000
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- 9x7x1
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