Handbook of American Indian Languages
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The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.
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| instanceOf |
language survey
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linguistics book → reference work → |
| aim |
to document and analyze Indigenous languages of the Americas
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| approach |
comparative
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descriptive → |
| associatedWith |
Boasian linguistics
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| author |
Franz Boas
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| citationForm |
Boas, Franz (ed.). Handbook of American Indian Languages.
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| contains |
grammatical sketches of individual Indigenous languages
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morphological analyses → phonological descriptions → syntactic descriptions → text samples in Indigenous languages → |
| countryOfPublication |
United States
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| editor |
Franz Boas
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| era |
pre-structuralist linguistics
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| field |
American Indian linguistics
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descriptive linguistics → linguistics → |
| firstVolumePublicationYear |
1911
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| geographicScope |
Central America
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North America → South America → |
| hasContributor |
various field linguists and ethnographers
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| hasPart |
Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 1
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Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 2 → Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 3 → |
| influenced |
later classifications of Native American languages
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structural linguistics in North America → |
| institutionalContext |
Bureau of American Ethnology research program
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| isConsidered |
classic of Americanist linguistics
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| language |
English
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| notableFor |
foundational work in American Indian linguistics
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systematic description of numerous American Indian languages → |
| publicationSeries |
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin
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| publisher |
Bureau of American Ethnology
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Smithsonian Institution → |
| secondVolumePublicationYear |
1922
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| subject |
Indigenous languages of the Americas
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Native American languages → grammatical description → language classification → |
| thirdVolumePublicationYear |
1923
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| timePeriod |
early 20th century
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| volumeCount |
3
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Referenced by (5)
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
("Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 1")
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Handbook of American Indian Languages ("Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 2") → Handbook of American Indian Languages ("Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 3") → |
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
("Boas, Franz (ed.). Handbook of American Indian Languages.")
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Franz Boas
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