Language Change in South American Indian Languages

Description

Editor: Key, Mary Ritchie

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Pub Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unread.  Dust Jacket: Fair.   NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  One approx. 3″ scratch along lower front cover.  Wear to head of spine.  Lower front cover edge has an approx. 1/16″ x 3″ crease.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  NOT conference papers, as you might expect.  Lots of linguistic jargon–problems of classification, typology phonology, grammar, origins of languages and relationships between languages.  The only thing I can relate this volume to is my late Navajo friend Irvin.  In talking to him one day he mentioned he’d made a business trip to Canada, met a number of First Nations members, and speaking “modern” Navajo, was able to converse with Athabaskan speakers from a thousand miles away.  Surely the language had changed over time and through numerous migrations.  Didn’t matter.  Probably same goes here.