Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley histories : language, archaeology, and ethnography / David V. Kaufman.

• Geography, archaeology, peoples, and languages. Geography and environment -- Archaeology and history -- Peoples, migrations, and languages -- Language contact. Language contact -- Phonetic and phonological features -- Morphological features -- Word borrowings and calques -- Conclusion.

• In Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories David V. Kaufman offers a stunning relational analysis of social, cultural, and linguistic change in the Lower Mississippi Valley from 500 to 1700. He charts how linguistic evidence aids the understanding of earlier cultural and social patterns, traces the diaspora of indigenous peoples, and uncovers instances of human migration. Historical linguistics establishes evidence of contact between indigenous peoples in the linguistic record where other disciplinary approaches have obscured these connections. The Mississippi Valley is the heartland of early North American civilizations. The region is a rich and diversified center of transportation for every part of eastern North America and to Mesoamerica. The Lower Mississippi Valley region emerged as the home of the earliest mound-building societies in the Americas and was home to some of the most impressive kingdoms encountered by Spanish and French explorers. The languages of the region provide the key to the realities experienced by these indigenous peoples, their histories, and their relationships.Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories focuses on relationships that constitute what linguists call asprachbund (language union), or language area. Kaufman illuminates and articulates these linguistic relationships through a skillful examination of archaeological and ethnohistorical data. 

Ämnesord

Nordamerikanska urfolk  (sao)

Antropologisk lingvistik  (sao)

Antropologi  (sao)

Arkeologi  (sao)

Kulturhistoria  (sao)

Indians of North America  -- Mississippi River Valley -- Languages. (LCSH)

Anthropological linguistics  -- Mississippi River Valley. (LCSH)

Languages in contact  -- Mississippi River Valley. (LCSH)

Language and culture  -- Mississippi River Valley. (LCSH)

Etnografi 

Anthropology  (lcsh)

Archaeology  (lcsh)

Indians of North America  (lcsh)

Anthropological linguistics  (lcsh)

Förenta staterna  -- Mississippi (flod) (sao)

Mississippi River Valley  -- Languages. (LCSH)

Mississippi River Valley  -- History -- To 1803. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

500-1200

Klassifikation

PM451 (LCC)

497/.5 (DDC)

Fxq (kssb/8 (machine generated))