Andrews now available

[John F. Schwaller]

The University of Oklahoma Press has just released the revised and expanded
edition of J. Richard Andrews', _Introduction to Classical Nahuatl_.  This
is a completely revised and much more thorough analysis of Nahuatl than the
first edition, published by Texas in 1975.  The book costs $74.95 while the
workbook to accompany the text costs $39.95.  This book is an essential
tool for the serious student of Nahuatl.

For more information about this book please go to the University of
Oklahoma Press web site:
http://www.oupress.com/bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-8061-3452-6

The promotional literature for the books reads as follows:


>For many years, J. Richard Andrews's Introduction to Classical Nahuatl has
>been the standard reference work for scholars and students of Nahuatl, the
>language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central
>Mexico. Andrews's work was the first book to make Nahuatl accessible as a
>coherent language system and to recognize such crucial linguistic features
>as vowel length and the glottal stop. Accompanied by a workbook, this
>long-awaited new edition is extensively revised, enlarged, and updated
>with the latest research.
>
>The revised edition is guided by the same intentions as those behind the
>first. Andrewss approach is "anthropological," teaching us to understand
>Nahuatl according to its own distinctive grammar and to reject
>translationalist descriptions based on English or Spanish notions of
>grammar. In particular, Andrews emphasizes the nonexistence of words in
>Nahuatl (except for the few so-called particles) and stresses the nuclear
>clause as the basis for Nahuatl linguistic organization. Besides an
>increase in the number of chapters (from forty-eight to fifty-seven,
>including a more detailed treatment of place names), the new edition
>contains an innovative approach to personal names and the introduction of
>the square zero to indicate irregular morphological silence. The
>accompanying workbook provides exercises linked to the text, a key to the
>exercises, and an extensive vocabulary list.
>
>J. Richard Andrews, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Spanish and
>Portuguese at Vanderbilt University, is considered the foremost living
>authority on the Classical Nahuatl language. He is the author of Juan del
>Encina: Prometheus in Search of Prestige and coauthor of Patterns for
>Reading Spanish.


John F. Schwaller
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