Amerind Etymological Dictionary (2025)

Amerind Dillerinde Türkçe İzleri

Appendixes to Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages

Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, 2013

The introduction of agriculture is a major event in human history, and this article offers a preliminary investigation into whether there might be structural features of language correlating with the distinction between languages spoken by hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists. A number of feature values treated in the World Atlas of Language Structures suggest promising results, in particular in relation to constituent order, phonology, and lexical typology. Hunter-gatherer languages favor (or agriculturalist languages disfavor) absence of a dominant order of major sentence constituents, absence of adpositions, absence of a dominant constituent order of noun and genitive, presence of subject clitics on a variable host, presence of initial interrogatives; a small vowel inventory, no tone, no voicing opposition in plosives and fricatives; and the lexicalization Finger = Hand ≠ Arm. Australian HG Other HG Uncertain Non-HG Adpositions 49 (-1.00) 110 (-0.81) 71 (+0.22) 861 (+0.51) No adpositions 9 (+6.09) 12 (+4.95) 0 (-1.36) 7 (-3.12

American indian languages

American indian languages

Zamponi, R. 2017 ‘First-person n and second-person m in Native America: A fresh look’. Italian Journal of Linguistics 29(2):189-230, 1-68.

First-person n and second-person m in Native America: a fresh look Raoul Zamponi Macerata, Italy <zamponi_raoul@libero.it> The presence of a pronominal set with n in the first person and m in the second person in numerous Native American languages has been known for more than one century. The number (also approximate) of language families involved and the precise geographical distribution of the n-and m-forms, however, are still unclear. In addition, since the n : m mini-paradigm seems to refer to a historical relatedness which lies beyond the reach of the scientific methods of historical-comparative linguistics, some Americanist linguists currently believe that it is impossible, if not useless, to try to provide a precise explanation of its wide geographical diffusion in the New World. The goals of this article are (i) to examine the presence/absence in all proven linguistic families of the Americas of n-and m-pronominal forms for first person or first person singular and second person or second person singular that do not result, as far as it is known, from secondary phonological developments occurred in individual branches; (ii) to reconstruct, as far as it is possible, the geographical distribution of the two forms in pre-European conquest times; and (iii) to attempt to offer a new interpretation of their (apparently robust) geographical diffusion. This article has two appendices published online only: Appendix A (Tables 1-8) and Appendix B (Linguistic data). * *

Global Etymologies

Merritt Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy (Stanford, California, Stanford University Press): 277-336., 1994

is largely based on the existence, in a few instances at least, of very old sources, the strength of Amerindian studies is simply the vast number of languages. Thus synchronic breadth becomes the source of diachronic depth.

The PaleobiolinguisƟ cs of Maize (Zea mays L.)

2014

Paleobiolinguis cs is used to determine when and where maize (Zea mays L.) developed significance for different prehistoric groups of Na ve America. Dates and loca ons of proto-languages for which maize terms reconstruct generally accord with crop-origin and dispersal informa on from plant gene cs and archaeobotany. Paleobiolinguis c and other lines of evidence indicate that human interest in maize was extensive millennia before the widespread development of a villagefarming way of life in the New World.

The Paleobiolinguistics of Maize (Zea mays L.)

Ethnobiology Letters, 2014

Paleobiolinguistics is used to determine when and where maize (Zea mays) developed significance for different prehistoric groups of Native America. Dates and locations of proto-languages for which maize terms reconstruct generally accord with crop-origin and dispersal information from plant genetics and archaeobotany. Paleobiolinguistic and other lines of evidence indicate that human interest in maize was extensive millennia before the widespread development of a village‐farming way of life in the New World.

Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2014. The Paleobiolinguistics of maize (Zea mays L.). Ethnobiology Letters 5: 52-64. doi:10.14237/ebl.5.2014.130.

2014

Paleobiolinguis cs is used to determine when and where maize (Zea mays L.) developed significance for different prehistoric groups of Na ve America. Dates and loca ons of proto-languages for which maize terms reconstruct generally accord with crop-origin and dispersal informa on from plant gene cs and archaeobotany. Paleobiolinguis c and other lines of evidence indicate that human interest in maize was extensive millennia before the widespread development of a villagefarming way of life in the New World.

Encyclopeia of the World's Endangered Languages

Tassonomia, filogenesi ed altro: la classificazione linguistica del Nordamerica

La presente raccolta di saggi (prevalentemente inediti, e tutti nati nell'ultimo quinquennio) presenta cinque prospettive sui diversi orizzonti della linguistica generale: dalle Americhe all'Oriente, dalla linguistica storica alla storia della linguistica, dal generativismo alla linguistica dei corpora. e Bando Regionale in Materia di Scienze umane e sociali 2008. Nel 1999 ha fondato l'associazione bmanuel.org, ed è membro dell'Associazione per la storia della lingua italiana dal 2004. Si è occupato di linguistica generale, linguistica storica, semantica e linguistica testuale, filosofia del linguaggio, storia della linguistica, linguistica dei corpora, lessicografia, critica testuale, metricologia, paleografia e creazione di font, romanistica, italianistica, uralistica, altaistica, amerindologia ed austronesianistica. È autore di varie monografie (La gradazione baltofinnica, 1993; Introduzione storico-descrittiva alla lingua vota, 1995 e 2012; A Short Etymological Dictionary of the Votic Language, 1994 e 2012; Corpora e linguistica in rete, 2007; Schema e storia del "Corpus Taurinense". Linguistica dei corpora dell'italiano antico, 2009) e di numerosi saggi su volume e rivista.