The Mesoamerican Indian Languages

Type

Book

Authors

Suárez ( Jorge A. Suárez )

ISBN 10

0521296692

ISBN 13

9780521296694

Tags

Criticism, Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses, Instruction, Words, Language & Grammar, Foreign Languages

Description

At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. For some we still have no more than a partial description, often in an obscure source. Professor Suárez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference. The approach is primarily descriptive, and a major part of the volume is concerned with synchronic descriptions of phonology, morphology and syntax. The volume will be of interest and importance both to general linguists and to others with a serious interest in Mesoamerican culture and society. - from Amzon

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