Name: Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
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Author: Cecil H. Brown
ISBN: 9780195121612

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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

Cecil H. Brown

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0195121619

ISBN13

9780195121612

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Synopsis "Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages "

Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.

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