Summary Details
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Amerind/Armenian Source
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| Author: | David Harris | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Language Documentation
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| Language Family: |
Armenian
Amerindian Pidgin |
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| Summary: |
Follow-up to the Amerind/Armenian summary: David Harris writes: My thanks to John Koonts and Peter Daniels for correcting my misunderstanding regarding the Boas book. I had thought his _Introduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages_ was an introduction to the on-going Smithsonian work which has a very similar title. In reality, the _Handbook of American Indian Languages_ and the _Handbook of American Indians_ are two separate and, evidently, on-going projects. (Well, the Smithsonian project is, in any case). The Koontz letter follows: The Boas Handbook is not the small survey, but a three volume series with fairly detailed descriptions in early formats and BAE phonetic orthography. Two volumes were published in maybe the 19-teens of the century by the BAE. A third volume, came out later from another press (Viking???). Look in the Government document collection in the nearest University library that houses one. There's at least one per state. You can also get these books used from time to time. I think Boas was the series editor, and he was definitely the co-author of the Dakota description (in V 2?). Sorry I don't have a precise reference at hand. John E. Koontz Research Associate Center for the Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz ********************************************************** Also, one more note regarding Armenian articles: I have written a chapter on Classical Armenian for a book entitled 'Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages' to be published by CUP and ed. Roger Woodard. The book aims to give comparable account to those given in Comrie's book, and should be out next year. The article in the book on IE languages (ed. by Ramat and Ramat) is OK - but rather slanted towards diachronic developments. You might also be interested in Charles de Lamberterie 'Introduction a l'armenien classique' LALIES 10 (1992) 234-289. James Clackson [jptc1@hermes.cam.ac.uk] Cambridge University UK *************************************** David Harris |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1722 | |
| Date Posted: | 04-Dec-1998 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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