21.5204, Books: Anthro Ling: Weeks, Danien (Eds) - Lang Documentation: Armbruster

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Subject: 21.5204, Books: Anthro Ling: Weeks, Danien (Eds) - Lang Documentation: Armbruster

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1)
Date: 20-Dec-2010
From: Katharine Clark [kclark at mellenpress.com]
Subject: The Lost Notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya Linguist: Weeks,
Danien (Eds)
2)
Date: 18-Dec-2010
From: Katharine Clark [kclark at mellenpress.com]
Subject: Initia Amharica: Armbruster

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:00:53
From: Katharine Clark [kclark at mellenpress.com]
Subject: The Lost Notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya Linguist: Weeks, Danien (Eds)

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Title: The Lost Notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya Linguist 
Subtitle: A Record of Languages of Ancient Guatemala 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
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Book URL: http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7469&pc=9 

Editor: John M. Weeks
Editor: Elin C. Danien

Hardback: ISBN: 0773450556 9780773450554 Pages: 680 Price: U.K. £ 89.95
Hardback: ISBN: 0773450556 9780773450554 Pages: 680 Price: U.S. $ 149.95

Abstract:

This work makes accessible rare, collected linguistic data from the
late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries. The study presents the
earliest reliable records of a number of Mayan languages, as opposed to
previous materials written primarily by colonial sources. 

Reviews

"Truly, with this publication an early Maya linguistic star is brought to
light!" - Prof. Robert M. Carmack, State University of New York at
Albany 

". . . these notebooks are a monument to an intellect rarely matched, to an
inquiring mind of an unusual sort, to a person who was able to operate
essentially autonomously in a field work context that was hardly conducive
to intellectual pursuits." - Dr. Nicholas A. Hopkins 

". . . for several of these languages, although published materials exist
from the end of the twentieth century, there is little or no data available
on them from Burkitt's time." - Prof. Martha J. Macri, University of
California, Davis 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Ixil, Chajul (ixj)

Written In: English  (eng)

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:01:13
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Initia Amharica: Armbruster

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Title: Initia Amharica 
Subtitle: An Introduction to Spoken Amharic. Part I. Grammar. 
Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica 109  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Author: C. H. Armbruster

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862901494 Pages: 422 Price: Europe EURO 73.10

Abstract:

Amharic is the language most widely spoken and written in Abyssinia at the
present day. It is indigenous not only in Amhara, the district from which
the name is taken, but over the greater part of Central Abyssinia. As a
language of commerce it is heard beyond the limits of Abyssinia proper. Two
principal dialects are distinguished, that of Gojjam and that of Shoa (from
the introduction). 

Contents: Phonetic alphabet, the Amharic characters, punctuation, doubling
consonants, crasis or contraction of adjacent vowels, substantive, the
Ethiopic accusative, pronouns, numerals, primitive and derived forms of the
verb, voice, mood, tense, contingent, jussive, paradigms of derived forms
of the verb, syntax, etc.

(Re-edition; originally published 1908 in Cambridge; written in English) 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Amharic (amh)

Written In: English  (eng)

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