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Black Street Speech
Its History, Structure, and Survival
Av John Baugh
Häftad, 1983
220 kr
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In the minds of many, black street speech-the urban dialect of black Americans-bespeaks illiteracy, poverty, and ignorance. John Baugh challenges those prejudices in this brilliant new inquiry into the history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech. In doing …
Amazonian Linguistics
Studies in Lowland South American Languages
Häftad, 1989
622 kr
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Lowland South American languages have been among the least studied ln the world. Consequently, their previous contribution to linguistic theory and language universals has been small. However, as this volume demonstrates, tremendous diversity and significance are found in the languages of this …
Language of the Inka Since the European Invasion
Häftad, 1991
373 kr
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The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is …
Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language
Häftad, 1983
402 kr
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This is the first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today by over 400,000 people in the western highlands of Guatemala and the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The result of over three years of extensive fieldwork in Guatemala, A Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language is based on the …
Tense and Narrativity
From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction
Häftad, 1990
542 kr
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In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language.Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the …
South American Indian Languages
Retrospect and Prospect
Av Harriet E. Manelis Klein, Louisa R. Stark
Häftad, 1985
841 kr
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This book fills the crucial need for a single volume that gives broad coverage and synthesizes findings for both the general reader and the specialist. This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, …
Language Parallax
Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy
Häftad, 1986
227 kr
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Humankind has always been fascinated and troubled by the way languages and dialects differ. Linguistically based differences in point of view have preoccupied many original minds of the past, such as Kant, and remain at the forefront of language study: in philosophy, anthropology, literary …
