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

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Handbook of American Indian Languages ("Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 1")
Handbook of American Indian Languages ("Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 2")
Handbook of American Indian Languages ("Handbook of American Indian Languages, Volume 3")
hasPart
Handbook of American Indian Languages ("Boas, Franz (ed.). Handbook of American Indian Languages.")
citationForm
Franz Boas
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