Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas: The Historization of Language and Society
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In this volume an international group of leading specialists guides us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies. These all lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, who is the forerunning specialist in Native American studies of Meso and South America, and Professor of Amerindian Studies at Leiden University. The contributors focus on the Andes, Amazonia, Meso-America and the Circum-Caribbean region. They provide a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research trends that illuminate the…mehr

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In this volume an international group of leading specialists guides us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies. These all lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, who is the forerunning specialist in Native American studies of Meso and South America, and Professor of Amerindian Studies at Leiden University. The contributors focus on the Andes, Amazonia, Meso-America and the Circum-Caribbean region. They provide a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research trends that illuminate the dynamics and historicity of the Americas, in migratory movements, contact situations, grouping and re-grouping of identities and its linguistic results. This book is a must-have for all scholars of the American continent.
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Eithne B. Carlin, Ph.D. (1992) in General and African Linguistics, University of Cologne, is senior lecturer at Leiden University. She has published extensively on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas, including A Grammar of Trio, a Cariban Language of Suriname (Peter Lang, 2004). Simon van de Kerke, Ph.D. (1996) in General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, is senior lecturer at Leiden University. He is specialized in indigenous languages of Bolivia and has been editor of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ILLA) series since 2000.