Linguistics and archaeology in the Americas : the historization of language and society

CONTENTSPreface Acknowledgements Bibliography of Willem F.H. Adelaar PART IHISTORICAL COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS OF SOUTH AMERICA1. Linguistic Reconstruction of Elements of Prehistoric Tupi Culture - Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues2. Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices inTupi-Guarani Languages - Wolf DietrichPART IIARCHAEOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS OF MESO-AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN3. Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing - Nikolai Grube4. Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing - Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez5. Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl - Michel Launey6. The Ever-Dynamic Caribbean: Exploring New Approaches to Unraveling Social Networks in the Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Periods - Corinne L. Hofman and Eithne B. CarlinPART IIISOCIOLINGUISTICS7. ‘Why do they steal our phonemes?’ Inventing the Survival of the Cañari Language (Ecuador) - Rosaleen Howard8. Lenguas e Ídentidades Étnicas - Xavier AlbóPART IVMORPHOPHONOLOGY AND MORPHOSYNTAX9. Sobre el Morfo Vacío -ni del Quechua - Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino10. The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua - Pieter Muysken11. O ‘Caduco’ e o ‘Frustrativo’ nas Línguas Baniwa do Içana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) - Gerald Taylor12. Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) - Ana Fernández Garay13. Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumarí - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald14. Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Kaingang - W. Leo WetzelsSubject Index List of Contributors