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Date: 28-Jul-2011
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary: Beck

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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:14:10
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary: Beck

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Title: Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 28  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110238228-1 

Author: David Beck

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110238235 Pages: 861 Price: Europe EURO 249.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110238228 Pages: 861 Price: Europe EURO 249.00

Abstract:

The Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary represents to-date the most extensive 
collection of lexical material for any member of the Totonac-Tepehua family 
and the only such record for this previously-undescribed polysynthetic 
language, currently spoken in two principal dialects by some 3,400 people, 
mainly adults, in the Sierra Norte of Puebla State, Mexico.

As well as a short grammatical sketch, the dictionary comprises 9,000 lexical 
entries, including numerous fixed expressions, idioms, and ideophones; each 
lexical entry is accompanied by part-of-speech information and phonetic 
transcriptions as well as, where appropriate, dialectal information, 
grammatical notes (including plurals and classifiers for nouns), literal 
morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, example sentences, and cross-references 
to derived forms and semantically-related words. The accompanying DVD 
includes additional illustrative sentences, audio recordings of headwords and 
examples, and interlinear glosses for many of the sentences included in 
lexical entries.

This book is the first Totonacan dictionary to be structured for the academic 
linguist, with special attention paid to the morphological structure of words 
and the organization of the Totonacan lexicon. Glosses are constructed so as 
to reflect the underlying complement-structure of words, with careful 
indication of the number of arguments required by particular lexical items, and 
all verbs are classified by dynamicity and valency. This dictionary is of 
interest to linguists working on American indigenous languages, as well as 
those concerned with the structure of morphologically complex words and the 
role of derivation in the lexicon of polysynthetic languages. It is also of use to 
historical linguists and Mesoamericanists interested in the reconstruction of 
the pre-Columbian history and ethnogeography of Mexico. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Anthropological Linguistics
                     Endangered Languages

Language Family(ies): Totonac

Written In: English  (eng)

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