A Prehistory of Western North America : The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages /

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This book offers a new approach to the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. The author shows how a well-studied language family-in this case Uto-Aztecan-can be used as an instrument for reconstructing prehistory.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaul, David Leedom
Other Authors: Ortman, Scott G., 1970- (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics.
Language and culture.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Native American Languages.
Langage et culture > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
Sociolinguistique > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
Langues uto-azteques > Lexicologie historique.
Language and culture > Southwest, New.
Sociolinguistics > Southwest, New.
Uto-Aztecan languages > Lexicology, Historical.
New Southwest.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Who's chasing the Uto-Aztecans?
  • Meet the Uto-Aztecan language family
  • The linguistic artifact : toward a prehistoric sociolinguistics
  • Numic spread sure go good on whitey bread
  • The American Southwest and Uto-Aztecan
  • Southern Arizona, the Tepiman Corridor, and Mesoamerica
  • Old California Uto-Aztecan
  • Uto-Aztecan and the spread of corn agriculture
  • Can proto-Uto-Aztecan culture be reconstructed?
  • A rejoinder : comparative Tepiman mythology and beyond
  • Chasing the Uto-Aztecans : a model of Uto-Aztecan prehistory
  • Prehistoric sociolinguistics
  • Appendix: Transcription conventions and phonetics.

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