Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

Author	: Cecil H. Brown
File Size	: 43,8 Mb
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 04 February 1999
ISBN	: 9780195352870
Pages	: 270 pages

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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages by Cecil H. Brown Book PDF Summary

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.

Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages by Cecil H. Brown

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