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.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is a complex effort, and one can only marvel at the amount of work required to gather the data, analyze them, sort them into meaningful categories, and then draw some general conclusions. Obviously, the comparative exercise - over and above the studies of linguistic acculturation in the individual languages - was a fruitful and fulfilling one. Certainly Brown...has accomplished a major task, and one that is an excellent demonstration of method as well as results. This volume should be of considerable use in courses on Native American languages, acculturation, comparative methods, and historical approaches."--Language in Society
About the Author
Cecil H. Brown is at Northern Illinois University.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great book!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) (Hardcover)
You have probably read the bible. You have probably read the Koran. You have probably read at least 3 books. Well, hold on to your hat. This book rings and rings with truth and beauty. If you don't buy it you are a dear person. Why not. Ok. Go for it.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn more)
lexical acculturation, acculturated items, loanword percentages, introduced living things, creature subtypes, other context items, overt marking constructions, universal naming tendencies, loan diffusion, given utilitarian names, word frequency model, specific currency denomination, different genetic groupings, animal subtypes, referential extension, native labels, unaffiliated languages, loan shift, marking reversals, primary accommodation, naming tendency, secondary accommodation, pidgin trade language, loan replacement, loan blends Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native American, Mobilian Jargon, Chinook Jargon, North America, New World, United States, Peruvian Quechua, South America, Middle America, Classical Nahuatl, University of Chicago Press, Current Anthropology, Lingua Franca Creek, Upper Chehalis, Item Percentage Item Percentage, Latin America, Central America, Language Case Genetic Group, Great Lakes, Western Apache, Postcontact Linguistic Areas, Native Term Diffusion, European Loan Diffusion, Pacific Northwest, Arizona Tewa Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
lexical acculturation, acculturated items, loanword percentages, introduced living things, creature subtypes, other context items, overt marking constructions, universal naming tendencies, loan diffusion, given utilitarian names, word frequency model, specific currency denomination, different genetic groupings, animal subtypes, referential extension, native labels, unaffiliated languages, loan shift, marking reversals, primary accommodation, naming tendency, secondary accommodation, pidgin trade language, loan replacement, loan blends Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native American, Mobilian Jargon, Chinook Jargon, North America, New World, United States, Peruvian Quechua, South America, Middle America, Classical Nahuatl, University of Chicago Press, Current Anthropology, Lingua Franca Creek, Upper Chehalis, Item Percentage Item Percentage, Latin America, Central America, Language Case Genetic Group, Great Lakes, Western Apache, Postcontact Linguistic Areas, Native Term Diffusion, European Loan Diffusion, Pacific Northwest, Arizona Tewa Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
3
books
cite this book:
- Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) by James M. Wilce in Front Matter
- Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpho-syntax (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by Maya Arad in Back Matter
- Language in Danger by Andrew Dalby in Back Matter
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism
- Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction > Native American
- Books > Education & Reference > Words & Language
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Humanities > Foreign Languages
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Humanities > Linguistics
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Social Sciences > Anthropology
- Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences
