Edward Vajda

Gebundenes Buch

Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America

Beschreibung

This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and Na-Dene, that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia.

Autor

Michael Fortescue, Ph.D. (1978), Edinburgh University, is professor emeritus in Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely in the field of Arctic languages, including West Greenlandic (Croom Helm, 1984). He co-authored The Comparative Eskimo Dictionary (Alaska Native Language Center, 1994, 2010). Edward Vajda, Ph.D. (1987), University of Washington, is professor of Russian, Eurasian Studies, and Linguistics at Western Washington University. His research focus is the indigenous languages of northern Asia, particularly Ket and other Yeniseian languages. His books include Yeniseian Peoples and Languages (Curzon Press, 2001) and Ket (Lincom, 2004).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9789004436817
• ISBN-10: 9004436812
• Artikelnr.: 62815325