The Mesoamerican Indian languages
At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. For some we still have no more than a partial description, often in an obscure source. Professor Suárez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference. The approach …
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- Full title :The Mesoamerican Indian languages / Jorge A. Suárez.
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At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. For some we still have no more than a partial description, often in an obscure source. Professor Suárez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference. The approach is primarily descriptive, and a major part of the volume is concerned with synchronic descriptions of phonology, morphology and syntax. The volume will be of interest and importance both to general linguists and to others with a serious interest in Mesoamerican culture and society.
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- Publication Date:1983.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1983.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 206 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521228344, 9780521228343, 0521296692, 9780521296694, 0511554443, 9780511554445
- oclc:ocm08034800
- LC Classification:PM3008
- Dewey Decimal:497
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