Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages(English, Hardcover, Brown Cecil H.)

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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages(English, Hardcover, Brown Cecil H.) is written by Brown Cecil H. and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195121619 (ISBN 10) and 9780195121612 (ISBN 13).

Brown examines the nature of acculturation - the process of the incorporation of foreign words about new concepts into a language - in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Specifically, he examines how Native American languages adjusted to the introduction of foreign objects and concepts after 1492. He looks systematically at almost 200 Native American languages and the words they developed for 77 new items and concepts, discerning patterns about the various linguistic issues and patterns at play.