A prehistory of western North America : the impact of Uto-Aztecan languages / David Leedom Shaul ; foreword by Scott G. Ortman.

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"This book offers a new approach to the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. The author shows how a well-studied language family--in this case Uto-Aztecan--can be used as an instrument for reconstructing prehistory. The main focus of Shaul's work is the mapping of Uto-Aztecan. By presen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaul, David Leedom
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Uto-Aztecan languages > Lexicology, Historical.
Sociolinguistics > Southwest, New.
Language and culture > Southwest, New.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.
Physical Description:xviii, 377 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Who's chasing the Uto-Aztecans?
  • Meet the Uto-Aztecan language family
  • The linguistic artifact : toward a prehistoric sociolinguistics
  • Numic spread sure go good on whitey bread
  • The American Southwest and Uto-Aztecan
  • Southern Arizona, the Tepiman Corridor, and Mesoamerica
  • Old California Uto-Aztecan
  • Uto-Aztecan and the spread of corn agriculture
  • Can proto-Uto-Aztecan culture be reconstructed?
  • A rejoinder : comparative Tepiman mythology and beyond
  • Chasing the Uto-Aztecans : a model of Uto-Aztecan prehistory
  • Prehistoric sociolinguistics
  • Appendix: Transcription conventions and phonetics.