Lexical acculturation in Native American languages / Cecil H. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Cecil H., 1944- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 19.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Languages--Lexicology, Historical.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Languages in contact--North America--History.

Languages in contact.

Languages, Mixed--North America--History.

Languages, Mixed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cecil H. Brown explores the nature of acculturation in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. He examines how Native American languages adjusted to foreign objects and new concepts after 1492.

Contents:

Contents; ONE: Introduction; TWO: Methodology; THREE: Nomenclature; FOUR: Lexical Universals; FIVE: Lexical Borrowability; SIX: Regional Patterns and Bilingualism; SEVEN: Lexical Replacement; EIGHT: Native Term Diffusion; NINE: European Loan Diffusion; TEN: Loan Shift: A Brief Case Study; ELEVEN: Postcontact Linguistic Areas; TWELVE: Conclusion; APPENDIX A: Statistical Reports on Individual Items of Acculturation; APPENDIX B: Lexical Sources and Other Information for 292 Language Cases; References; Index of Languages, Items of Acculturation, Personal and Geographical Names; Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Bibliography: p221-238.- Includes indexes.

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772196-6

1-280-47071-2

0-19-535287-4

1-60256-295-4

OCLC:

252569751