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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

Brown, Cecil H.

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, Book 20

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasLinguisticsAnthropology

ISBN10: 0195121619
ISBN13: 9780195121612
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 4 1999
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.

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