Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

EnglishHardbackPrint on demand
Brown, Cecil H.
Oxford University Press Inc
EAN: 9780195121612
Print on demand
Delivery on Wednesday, 29. of January 2025
CZK 4,965
Common price CZK 5,517
Discount 10%
pc
Do you want this product today?
Oxford Bookshop Praha Korunní
not available
Librairie Francophone Praha Štěpánská
not available
Oxford Bookshop Ostrava
not available
Oxford Bookshop Olomouc
not available
Oxford Bookshop Plzeň
not available
Oxford Bookshop Brno
not available
Oxford Bookshop Hradec Králové
not available
Oxford Bookshop České Budějovice
not available
Oxford Bookshop Liberec
not available

Detailed information

Brown examines the nature of acculturation - the process of the incorporation of foreign words about new concepts into a language - in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Specifically, he examines how Native American languages adjusted to the introduction of foreign objects and concepts after 1492. He looks systematically at almost 200 Native American languages and the words they developed for 77 new items and concepts, discerning patterns about the various linguistic issues and patterns at play.
EAN 9780195121612
ISBN 0195121619
Binding Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Publication date May 20, 1999
Pages 272
Language English
Dimensions 155 x 246 x 24
Country United States
Authors Brown, Cecil H.
Illustrations tables
Series Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics