| Series |
Brill's studies in the Indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Linguistic Reconstruction of Elements of Prehistoric Tupi Culture / Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues -- Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices in Tupi-Guarani Languages / Wolf Dietrich -- Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing / Nikolai Grube -- Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez -- Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl / Michel Launey - The Ever-Dynamic Caribbean: Exploring New Approaches to Unraveling Social Networks in the Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Periods / Corinne L. Hofman and Eithne B. Carlin -- 'Why do they steal our phonemes?': Inventing the Survival of the Cañari Language (Ecuador) / Rosaleen Howard -- Lenguas e ídentidades étnicas / -- Xavier Albó -- Sobre el Morfo Vacío -ni del Quechua / Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino -- The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua / Pieter Muysken -- O 'Caduco' e o 'Frustrativo' nas Línguas Baniwa do Içana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) / Gerald Taylor --Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) / Ana Fernández Garay -- Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumari / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Kaingang / W. Leo Wetzels. |
| General note | "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."--Pref. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | Articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010005005 |
| ISBN | 9789004173620 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9004173625 (alk. paper) |
