Books: Native American (Central & South America) languages
Scott McGinnis
smcginnis at nflc.org
Tue Mar 6 15:16:34 UTC 2001
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 13:37:44 +0100
From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
Subject: Native American Languages: Los 'dialogos' del Calepino de
Motul
Los 'diálogos' del Calepino de Motul:
exploraciones en la historiografía de la Otredad
ROSE LEMA
En el presente estudio hacemos una lectura no lexicológica, sino
discursiva, del diccionario más antiguo y extenso que se haya escrito
sobre la lengua yucateca. Se trata del Calepino de Motul, elaborado en
suelo amerindio por fray Antonio de Ciudad Real en el enlace de los
siglos XVI y XVII. Inspirándonos en Roland Barthes, hemos seguido el
método de lectura vocal, el cual dice la cultura más allá de los
sonidos del lenguaje. Así, hemos podido escuchar el grano de las voces
de aquella época en 166 'diálogos' esparcidos entre las 16 000
cápsulas léxicas que constituyen el Calepino. A lo largo de las
escuetas conversaciones recién recreadas se pueden vislumbrar vívidas
escenas de la cotidianeidad en los pueblos, la milpa, los caminos, el
atrio de la iglesia, las chozas, el confesionario. Se puede asimismo
imaginar al indio confesándose al fraile o guardando ante éste un
silencio absoluto, lleno de significaciones culturales ante el
endoctrinamiento. En efecto, la multiacentualidad de las reacciones
de los mayas habrían de conducir los destinos por derroteros jamás
imaginados por los evangelizadores venidos de allende el mar. En fin,
contextuando los diálogos mediante datos antropológicos, sociológicos
e históricos, provenientes de distintas épocas y de autores diversos,
nos hemos ido acercando, transdisciplinariamente, a la otredad de la
época colonial postmontejina.
ISBN 3 89586 666 0.
Native America 01.
280pp. Ca. USD 64 / DM 120 / £ 40.
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 13:51:22 +0100
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Subject: Native American Languages: Aymara by M. Hardman
Aymara
MJ HARDMAN
University of Florida, Gainesville
Aymara, a member of the Jaqi family of languages (Jaqaru, Kawki,
Aymara), is a language of the high Andean plain between the highest
peaks of the Andes mountains and of the shores of the world's highest
navigable lake. Aymara is the first language of approximately
one-third of the population of Bolivia, the dominant language of the
southern area of Perú throughout Puno and down towards the coast in
Moquegua, Tacna, with branches into Arequipa, and is the indigenous
language of northern Chile. Aymara is a suffixing language with
complex morphophonemics. The bulk of the grammatical resources are
found within the morphology. Syntax is morphologically marked; verbal
person suffixes mark simultaneously object/subject; data source is
marked at all levels of grammar. Within the nominal system
inclusive/exclusive and humanness are marked. The Aymara sentence is
defined by the use of sentence suffixes. These sentence suffixes are
independent of root classes and may occur on all classes. Every
sentence must be marked by one or more sentence suffix, which serves
to define the sentence type. Aymara has 26 consonant phonemes and
three vowel phonemes. Fifteen of the consonants are voiceless stops
which occur in five contrasting positions of articulation; and in
three manners. Vowel dropping is significant, complex and pervasive,
marking case and phrase structure as well as style. MJ Hardman is
Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of
Florida. She began the study of Aymara in the sixties and has since
been continually involved with one or another of the Jaqi languages
for which she has written grammars, teaching materials and cultural
studies. She founded INEL (Instituto Nacional de Estudios
Lingüísticos) in Bolivia and the Aymara Language Materials Program at
the University of Florida. Her current research also involves
language and gender and the patterning of worldview in language.
ISBN 3 89586 975 9.
LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 35.
Ca. 260 pp. USD 68 / DM 128 / £ 42.
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 13:38:45 +0100
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Subject: Native American: A Tri-Lingual Dictionary of
Embera-Spanish-English
A Tri-Lingual Dictionary of Emberá-Spanish-English
SOLOMON SARA
Georgetown University
Emberá is a Central American Indian Language belonging to the Choco
grouping. It is Spoken in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in unequal
proportions. This study is based on the Emberá dialect spoken in
Panama. Though the statistics vary, the number of native speakers is
no more than sixty thousand, in toto. In Panama, the number of
speakers is no more than twenty thousand. There are no studies in
English on Emberá, and a very few in Spanish. This dictionary is
based on information and elicitations from the native speaker
Mr. Daniel Castañeda. This is the first attempt at a collection of the
basic lexical items of the language, and it is first in English and
Spanish. Mr. Castañeda is a bilingual speaker of Spanish and Emberá,
with limited fluency in English. All elicitations were done through
the medium of Spanish at Georgetown University in Washington
D.C. while he was residing in the area. For ease of use the dictionary
is multi-directional, i.e. Emberá-Spanish-English and
Spanish-Emberá-English. Even though this dialect differs from Chamí
dialect, this dictionary can serve as a companion to the grammar of
Emberá by D.A. Licht, also published by LINCOM EUROPA.
ISBN 3 89586 672 5.
Languages of the World/Dictionaries 38.
Ca. 450pp. USD 78 / DM 144 / £ 48.
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