Amerindian languages are a linguistic macro-family proposed by J. Greenberg in his 1987 book Language in the Americas [1] . In this book, Greenberg suggested that all Native American languages of America belong to one of three language families . According to his hypothesis, only a small number of languages concentrated in North America belong to the previously proposed language families of Naden and Eskimo-Aleut languages . All other languages, which are usually regarded as belonging to dozens of separate and unrelated language families, Greenberg refers to the Amerindian macrofamily. Due to the large number of methodological miscalculations in the study of relations between languages, this hypothesis was rejected by most of the linguistic community [2] .
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See also
- Famous adherents of the theory of Amerindian languages:
- Edward Sepir
- Morris Swedish
- Sydney lamb
- Joseph Greenberg
- Merritt Roulin
- Morris Swedish
- Edward Sepir
- Non-Amerindian American Language Families:
- On the day
- Eskimo-Aleut languages
- On the day
- Other macrofamily hypotheses
- Nostratic languages
- Eurasian languages , of which Eskimo-Aleutian languages are a part.
- Afro-Asian languages
- Dene-Caucasian languages , of which the Na-Dene languages are a part.
- Austrian languages
- Eurasian languages , of which Eskimo-Aleutian languages are a part.
- Nostratic languages
Notes
- ↑ Language in the Americas ( ISBN 0-8047-1315-4 )
- ↑ Campbell 1997, Poser & Campbell 2008, Adelaar 1989, Berman 1992, Chafe 1987, Matisof 1990, Golla 1987, 1988, Kimball 1992, Mithun 1999, Poser 1992, Rankin 1992
Literature
- Adelaar, Willem FH (1989). [Review of Greenberg, Language in the Americas ]. Lingua 78 , 249-255.
- Berman, Howard. (1992). A comment on the Yurok and Kalapuya data in Greenberg's Language in the Americas. International Journal of American Linguistics , 58 (2), 230-233.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1 .
- Campbell, Lyle; Poser, William J. (2008) Language Classification, History and Method . Cambridge University Press.
- Greenberg, Joseph H. & Ruhlen, Merritt (2007), An Amerind Etymological Dictionary , Department of Anthropology, Stanford University , < http://www.merrittruhlen.com/files/AED5.pdf > . Retrieved October 24, 2009. Archived December 25, 2010 on Wayback Machine
- Chafe, Wallace. (1987). [Review of Greenberg 1987]. Current Anthropology , 28 , 652–653.
- Golla, Victor. (1987). [Review of Joseph H. Greenberg: Language in the Americas ]. Current Anthropology , 28 , 657–659.
- Golla, Victor. (1988). [Review of Language in the Americas , by Joseph Greenberg]. American Anthropologist , 90 , 434-435.
- Kimball, Geoffrey. (1992). A critique of Muskogean, 'Gulf,' and Yukian materials in Language in the Americas. International Journal of American Linguistics , 58 , 447-501.
- Matisoff, James. (1990). On megalo-comparison: A discussion note. Language , 66 , 106-120.
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X .
- Poser, William J. (1992). The Salinan and Yurumanguí data in Language in the Americas. International Journal of American Linguistics , 58 (2), 202-229. PDF
- Rankin, Robert. (1992). [Review of Language in the Americas by JH Greenberg]. International Journal of American Linguistics , 58 (3), 324–351.
- Sapir, Edward (1984), "Letter to AL Kroeber (1918)", The Sapir-Kroeber correspondence: letters between Edward Sapir and AL Kroeber, 1905-1925 , Berkeley : University of California at Berkeley , Survey of California and Other Indian Languages OCLC: 17922146
Links
- Page of Merrit Rulen , one of the adherents of the theory of Amerindian languages.