Lexical Reconstruction: The Case of the Proto-Athapaskan Kinship System - Hardcover

Dyen, Isidore; Aberle, David F.

 
9780521203692: Lexical Reconstruction: The Case of the Proto-Athapaskan Kinship System
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521203694 ISBN 13: 9780521203692
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics in Athapaskan languages and dialects.

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Reseña del editor

In this book, which was originally published in 1974, lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics. The Athapaskan language family has members in Alaska, western Canada, the west coast and southwest of the United States, and Oklahoma. 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. A central contribution of the work is the explicit delineation of the method used in lexical reconstruction to arrive at the likeliest inferences about the meanings of proto-lexemes. Other methodological contributions include a method for inferring features of social organization from kinship terminology and for reconstructing other features of social organization from the distribution of these features among existing groups.

Biografía del autor

David F. Aberle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the University of British Columbia, is well known for his publications on the Navajo. In a new preface to this edition he describes the impact on Navaho peyotism of the 1990 U.s. Supreme Court decision, the reduced supplies of Texas peyote, and the competition from evangelical Christianity.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1974
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521203694
ISBN 13 
9780521203692
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
484
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