Andrews now available

[Michael Mccafferty]

I've tried to get this book through Amazon.com but without success, even
though it is ostensibly offered by that company. I did get the workbook
weeks ago through Amazon.com. I imagine if you want the text, you have to
go through U of OK Press.

Michael McCafferty


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, John F. Schwaller wrote:

> 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
> Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean
> 315 Behmler Hall
> University of Minnesota, Morris
> 600 E 4th Street
> Morris, MN  56267
> 320-589-6015
> FAX 320-589-6399
> schwallr at mrs.umn.edu
>
>
>


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