TY - BOOK AU - Carlin,Eithne AU - Van de Kerke,Simon TI - Linguistics and archaeology in the Americas: the historization of language and society T2 - Brill's studies in the Indigenous languages of the Americas SN - 9789004173620 U1 - 498 21E PY - 2010/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill N1 - Index; "This book has been written by a select group of leading international scholars of Amerindian studies in honour of Professor Willem Adelaar on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 2008."; Notes bibliogr; Linguistic reconstruction of elements of prehistoric Tupi culture / Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues -- Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices in TupiGuarani Languages / Wolf Dietrich -- Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing / Nikolai Grube -- Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez -- Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl / Michel Launey - The EverDynamic Caribbean: Exploring New Approaches to Unraveling Social -- Networks in the precolonial and early colonial periods / Corinne L. Hofman and Eithne B. Carlin -- 'Why do they steal our phonemes?' Inventing the Survival of the Canari Language (Ecuador) / Rosaleen Howard -- Lenguas e Identidades Etnicas / -- Xavier albo -- sobre el morfo vacio ni del quechua / Rodolfo CerronPalomino -- The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua / Pieter Muysken -- O 'Caduco' e o 'Frustrativo' nas Linguas Baniwa do Icana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) / Gerald Taylor --Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) / Ana Fernandez Garay -- Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumari / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Xaingang / W. Leo Wetzels ER -