Piros and Prehistory: A Study in Tanoan - Couverture rigide

Shaul, David Leedom

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1647691583 ISBN 13 : 9781647691585

Editeur : University of Utah Press,U.S., 2024

Synopsis

In Piros and Prehistory, David Leedom Shaul turns his attention to the Piro language, once spoken by the people of the Piro pueblos in New Mexico but extinct since approximately the year 1900. While arguments have been made in favor of Piro belonging to the Tiwa branch of the Tanoan family, Shaul counters this classification with a detailed rebuttal, firmly establishing Piro within the Tanoan family but outside of the Tiwa branch.

Shaul's arguments use linguistic analyses coupled with historic and prehistoric records of migration and cultural interaction. Following the establishment of Piro as a Tanoan language, much of the linguistic analysis involves determining the aspects of Piro that were inherited from the earlier Proto-Tanoan versus those that were incorporated later as a result of borrowing from other languages through cultural interaction. This book lays out the linguistic argument that the similarities between Piro and Tiwan languages result from borrowing, not common ancestry, and it provides a record of contact between groups and linguistic evolution based on these movements.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Leedom Shaul is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of A Linguistic Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan; Ausaima Language and Culture: Perspectives on Ancient California; Esselen Studies: Language, Culture and Prehistory; and Salinan Language Studies, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Utah Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1647691583
• ISBN 13: 9781647691585
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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