Andrews now available

[idiez at MAC.COM]

I just got my copy of the text here in Zacatecas yesterday.
I ordered it through U of OK press. Boy, if you thought the
first edition was dense reading, wait until you get a load of
the new edition!

John Sullivan, Ph.D.
Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas, A.C.
Francisco García Salinas 604
Colonia CNOP
Zacatecas, Zac. 98053
México
+52 (492) 768-6048
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On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 08:11  AM, Michael Mccafferty wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> "I'm trying to think but nothing happens"
>
> -Curly
>