Isidore Dyen, David F. Aberle

Lexical Reconstruction

The Case of the Proto-Athapaskan Kinship System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics in Athapaskan languages and dialects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9780521134460
• ISBN-10: 0521134463
• Artikelnr.: 29021990

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of maps
Foreword by Harry Hoijer
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. The controversy over Proto-Athapaskan kinship
2. Lexical reconstruction
3. The reconstruction of Proto-Athapaskan kinship
4. Kinship-term patterns as bases for inferences about kinship organization
5. Interpretation of Proto-Athapaskan terminology
6. Approaches to the study of differentiation
7. The Pacific subgroup
8. Apachean
9. Canadian differentiation
10. The methods and results of prior reconstructions
11. Ethnological implications
12. Summary.