Lexical Reconstruction

Klappentext In this book! lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics in Athapaskan languages and dialects. Zusammenfassung In this book! which was originally published in 1974! lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics. The authors use the kinship terminology of existing Athapaskan languages and dialects to provide a lexical reconstruction of the kinship terminology of the mother-language! Proto-Athapaskan! which existed perhaps 1!500 or more years ago. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of maps; Foreword by Harry Hoijer; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. The controversy over Proto-Athapaskan kinship; 2. Lexical reconstruction; 3. The reconstruction of Proto-Athapaskan kinship; 4. Kinship-term patterns as bases for inferences about kinship organization; 5. Interpretation of Proto-Athapaskan terminology; 6. Approaches to the study of differentiation; 7. The Pacific subgroup; 8. Apachean; 9. Canadian differentiation; 10. The methods and results of prior reconstructions; 11. Ethnological implications; 12. Summary.

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• Authors: David F. Aberle, Aberle David F., Isidore Dyen, Dyen Isidore
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521134460
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13446-0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Na-Dene languages, Na-Dene & Athapascan (Athabascan) languages