Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110195593 ISBN 13 : 9783110195590

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2007

Synopsis

This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Pfeiler, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110195593
• ISBN 13: 9783110195590
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 215
• Éditeur: Pfeiler Barbara
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