
Generative Approaches To Historical Linguistics / Eung-do Cook -- Where Does Language Borrowing End And Genetic Relationship Begin? / Irmengard Rauch -- Language Death, Language Contact, And Language Evolution / Jane H. Hill -- The Languages Within Language: Toward A Paleontological Approach Of Verbal Communication / Ivan Fónagy -- Pidginization, Creolization, And The Naturalness Hypothesis / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Correlative Linguistics / Ashok R. Kelkar -- The Emerging Linguistic Picture And Linguistic Prehistory Of The Southwestern Pacific / S.a. Wurm -- Quichean Linguistics And Philology / Lyle Campbell -- Morphemes Of Southern Quechua And Their Influence On Spanish / Juan A. Hasler -- Unstudied Ethnographic Areas Of The Sepik Basin, New Guinea / Donald C. Laycock -- The Aztec System Of Writing: Problems Of Research / Joaquín Galarza -- Clauses And Cases In Southeast Asian Languages And Thought / Nguyen Dang Liem --^ Identification And Grammatical Structure In Akan And Welsh / Jeffrey Ellis -- Abstractness Of Phonology And Blackfoot Orthography Design / Donald G. Frantz -- Pragmo-ecological Grammar (peg): Toward A New Synthesis Of Linguistics And Anthropology / Adam Makkai -- Common Cognitive Elements In Combined Verbs (bengali, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesian, And Vietnamese) / Sunil Sen-gupta -- Linguistic Anthropology And The Innatist Fallacy / Germán Fernández-guizzetti -- Linguistic Reconstruction And History / Lucia Wald -- Lexical Change In Philippine Creole Spanish / Carol H. Molony -- Semantic Categories In The Names Of Algonquian Waterways / Eugene Green And Celia M. Millward -- The Aztec Day Names / Herbert Landar -- The Intransitive Marker T In Eskimo / Jang H. Koo -- Stone, Hammer, And Heaven In Indo-european Languages And Cosmology / J. Peter Maher -- François-xavier Garneau, England, And France: An Essay On Historical Lexicography / Louis A. Chevrette --^ Structural Analysis Of Terms For Parts Of The Body In Serbo-croatian / Jerry L. Liston -- Soci
This volume investigates the intersection of linguistic structures and anthropological contexts to determine how language functions as a primary indicator of cultural evolution and social identity. The editors, William C. McCormack and Stephen A. Wurm, compile a diverse array of scholarly contributions that examine language through the lenses of history, geography, and social interaction. By synthesizing data from disparate language families and geographic regions, the text argues that linguistic analysis is inseparable from the study of human behavior and historical development.
What You Will Find
Experts recognize this collection as a significant, albeit dense, contribution to the World Anthropology series, providing a broad overview of linguistic anthropology during the mid-20th century. Scholars frequently cite the work for its wide-ranging geographic scope and its utility in understanding the methodological challenges inherent in cross-cultural linguistic research.
Page Count:
672
Publication Date:
1978-01-01
Publisher:
distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine
ISBN-10:
0202900738
ISBN-13:
9780202900735
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