LINGUIST List 21.5204 Tue Dec 21 2010 Books: Anthro Ling: Weeks, Danien (Eds) - Lang Documentation: Armbruster Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Katharine Clark , The Lost Notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya Linguist: Weeks, Danien (Eds)         2.     Katharine Clark , Initia Amharica: Armbruster Message 1: The Lost Notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya Linguist: Weeks, Danien (Eds) Date: 20-Dec-2010 From: Katharine Clark <kclarkmellenpress.com> Subject: The Lost Notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya Linguist: Weeks, Danien (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Lost Notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya Linguist Subtitle: A Record of Languages of Ancient Guatemala Published: 2010 Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press                 http://www.mellenpress.com/ Book URL: http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7469&pc=9 Editor: John M. Weeks Editor: Elin C. Danien Hardback: ISBN: 0773450556 9780773450554 Pages: 680 Price: U.K. £ 89.95 Hardback: ISBN: 0773450556 9780773450554 Pages: 680 Price: U.S. $ 149.95 Abstract: This work makes accessible rare, collected linguistic data from the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries. The study presents the earliest reliable records of a number of Mayan languages, as opposed to previous materials written primarily by colonial sources. Reviews "Truly, with this publication an early Maya linguistic star is brought to light!" - Prof. Robert M. Carmack, State University of New York at Albany ". . . these notebooks are a monument to an intellect rarely matched, to an inquiring mind of an unusual sort, to a person who was able to operate essentially autonomously in a field work context that was hardly conducive to intellectual pursuits." - Dr. Nicholas A. Hopkins ". . . for several of these languages, although published materials exist from the end of the twentieth century, there is little or no data available on them from Burkitt's time." - Prof. Martha J. Macri, University of California, Davis Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics                             Language Documentation                             Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Ixil, Chajul (ixj) Areal Regions: Pacific Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52326 Message 2: Initia Amharica: Armbruster Date: 18-Dec-2010 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: Initia Amharica: Armbruster E-mail this message to a friend Title: Initia Amharica Subtitle: An Introduction to Spoken Amharic. Part I. Grammar. Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica 109 Published: 2010 Publisher: Lincom GmbH                 http://www.lincom.eu Author: C. H. Armbruster Paperback: ISBN: 9783862901494 Pages: 422 Price: Europe EURO 73.10 Abstract: Amharic is the language most widely spoken and written in Abyssinia at the present day. It is indigenous not only in Amhara, the district from which the name is taken, but over the greater part of Central Abyssinia. As a language of commerce it is heard beyond the limits of Abyssinia proper. Two principal dialects are distinguished, that of Gojjam and that of Shoa (from the introduction). Contents: Phonetic alphabet, the Amharic characters, punctuation, doubling consonants, crasis or contraction of adjacent vowels, substantive, the Ethiopic accusative, pronouns, numerals, primitive and derived forms of the verb, voice, mood, tense, contingent, jussive, paradigms of derived forms of the verb, syntax, etc. (Re-edition; originally published 1908 in Cambridge; written in English) Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Subject Language(s): Amharic (amh) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52246 New! 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