TY - BOOK ID - 29088457 TI - Linguistics PY - 1967 SN - 0292700148 0292732597 0292732600 0292732600 0292784198 0292784198 0292701500 0292701500 0292701527 0292701535 0292701543 0292701543 0292730047 0292736657 1477306633 1477306641 PB - Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, DB - UniCat KW - Indians of Central America. KW - Indians of Mexico. KW - Indians of Central America KW - Indians of Mexico KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - #SBIB:39A1 KW - #SBIB:39A74 KW - Antropologie: algemeen KW - Etnografie: Amerika KW - Linguistics KW - Linguistic science KW - Science of language KW - Language and languages KW - History KW - Indians of North America KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Meso-America KW - Meso-American Indians KW - Mesoamerica KW - Mesoamerican Indians KW - Pre-Columbian Indians KW - Precolumbian Indians KW - Ethnology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29088457 AB - This volume, the fifth in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, presents a summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and Central America. The essays include the following: “Inventory of Descriptive Materials” by William Bright; “Inventory of Classificatory Materials” by Maria Teresa Fernández de Miranda, “Lexicostatistic Classification” by Morris Swadesh, “Systemic Comparison and Reconstruction” by Robert Longacre, and “Environmental Correlational Studies” by Sarah C. Gudschinsky. Sketches of Classical Nahuatl by Stanley Newman, Classical Yucatec Maya by Norman A. McQuown, and Classical Quiché by Munro S. Edmonson provide working tools for tackling the voluminous early postconquest texts in these languages of late preconquest empires (Aztec, Maya, Quiché). Further sketches of Sierra Popoluca by Benjamin F. Elson, of Isthmus Zapotec by Velma B. Pickett, of Huautla de Jiménez Mazatec by Eunice V. Pike, of Jiliapan Pame by Leonardo Manrique C., and of Huamelultec Chontal by Viola Waterhouse—together with those of Nahuatl, Maya, and Quiché—provide not only descriptive outlines of as many different linguistic structures but also linguistic representatives of seven structurally different families of Middle American languages. Miguel Léon-Portilla presents an outline of the relations between language and the culture of which it is a part and provides examples of some of these relations as revealed by contemporary research in indigenous Middle America. The volume editor, Norman A. McQuown (1914–2005), was Professor of Anthropology at The University of Chicago. He formerly taught at Hunter College and served with the Mexican Department of Indian Affairs. He carried out fieldwork with Totonac, Huastec, Tzeltal-Tzotzil, Mame, and other tribes. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology. ER -