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Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Reconstructive Description of Eighteenth-century Xinka Grammar:
Sachse

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From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Reconstructive Description of Eighteenth-century Xinka Grammar: Sachse

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Title: Reconstructive Description of Eighteenth-century Xinka Grammar 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Frauke Sachse

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930294 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 69.03

Abstract:

This dissertation presents a comprehensive description of Xinka based on 
the missionary grammar Arte de la lengua szinca that was written by the 
priest Manuel Maldonado de Matos around 1773. Xinka is an isolate family of 
today mostly extinct, closely related languages in southeastern Guatemala. 
The Arte de la lengua szinca is the earliest source on Xinka grammar that is 
otherwise not well documented or described. The analysis of the late colonial 
grammar draws on comparative data, including (a) primary data that were 
documented by the author with the last Xinka-speakers in Guazacapán, 
Santa Rosa, Guatemala between 2000-03, and (b) further secondary linguistic 
data of Xinkan languages from the towns of Guazacapán, Chiquimulilla, 
Yupiltepeque, Jumaytepeque, Sinacantán and Jutiapa. The text addresses 
the methodological implications of describing colonial Xinka grammar based 
on such a heterogeneous corpus of diachronic and regionally diverse data. 
Besides the linguistic description, the dissertation contains information about 
the cultural context of the language as well as about the colonial document 
and the corpus of linguistic data. The appendix includes a concordance of the 
linguistic data from the colonial grammar and a dictionary of the lexical 
entries. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Xinca (xin)

Written In: English  (eng)

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