Languages of the pre-Columbian Antilles

Main Author: Granberry, Julian.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Vescelius, Gary S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10237167
Table of Contents:
  • The pre-Columbian Antilles : an overview of research and sources
  • The languages of the Greater Antilles : a documentary view
  • Anomalous non-Taβino language data from the Greater Antilles
  • The primary archaeological correlates of language data from the Greater Antilles and their outliers
  • Languages of the Greater Antilles : a working hypothesis
  • The languages of the Lesser Antilles and their archaeological correlates
  • The toponymic method and the derivation of Taβino morphemes (with a note on Macorβis and Ciboney toponyms)
  • Toponyms and the settlement of the Lucayan Islands : a methodological test
  • Some principles of Taβino grammar
  • A short lexicon of Taβino morphemes and lexical forms
  • Antillean languages : an afterview.