| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book offers a new approach to the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. The author shows how a well-studied language family-in this case Uto-Aztecan-can be used as an instrument for reconstructing prehistory. |
| Contents |
Who's chasing the Uto-Aztecans? -- Meet the Uto-Aztecan language family -- The linguistic artifact : toward a prehistoric sociolinguistics -- Numic spread sure go good on whitey bread -- The American Southwest and Uto-Aztecan -- Southern Arizona, the Tepiman Corridor, and Mesoamerica -- Old California Uto-Aztecan -- Uto-Aztecan and the spread of corn agriculture -- Can proto-Uto-Aztecan culture be reconstructed? -- A rejoinder : comparative Tepiman mythology and beyond -- Chasing the Uto-Aztecans : a model of Uto-Aztecan prehistory -- Prehistoric sociolinguistics -- Appendix: Transcription conventions and phonetics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Uto-Aztecan languages -- Lexicology, Historical.
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Uto-Aztecan languages. |
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Sociolinguistics -- Southwest, New.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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New Southwest. |
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Language and culture -- Southwest, New.
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Language and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ortman, Scott G., 1970- Author of introduction, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shaul, David Leedom. Prehistory of western north america 0826354807 (OCoLC)864411199 |
| ISBN |
9780826354815 (electronic book) |
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0826354815 (electronic book) |
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0826354807 |
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9780826354808 |
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