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Languages of the pre-Columbian Antilles / Julian Granberry, Gary S. Vescelius.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Granberry, Julian.
- Series:
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of the West Indies--Antilles, Greater--Languages.
- Indians of the West Indies.
- Taino language--Antilles, Greater.
- Taino language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 153 pages) : maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492. This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos), the Virgin Islands, and the northernmost of the Leeward Islands, prior to European contact. Using archaeological data as corroboration, the authors synthesize evidence that has been available in scattered l
- Contents:
- The pre-Columbian Antilles : an overview of research and sources
- The languages of the Greater Antilles : a documentary view
- Anomalous non-Taino language data from the Greater Antilles
- The primary archaeological correlates of language data from the Greater Antilles and their outliers
- Languages of the Greater Antilles : a working hypothesis
- The languages of the Lesser Antilles and their archaeological correlates
- The toponymic method and the derivation of Taino morphemes (with a note on Macoris and Ciboney toponyms)
- Toponyms and the settlement of the Lucayan Islands : a methodological test
- Some principles of Taino grammar
- A short lexicon of Taino morphemes and lexical forms
- Antillean languages : an afterview.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-148) and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780817381912
- 0817381910
- OCLC:
- 320324534
- Publisher Number:
- heb40240 hdl
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