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Broadwell, George Aaron

 
9781496237781: The Timucua Language: A Text-Based Reference Grammar
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ISBN 10: 1496237781 ISBN 13: 9781496237781
Editorial: University of Nebraska Press, 2024

Sinopsis

The Timucua Language is a comprehensive reference grammar of Timucua, the Native language of much of northern Florida during the Spanish colonial period. Though the Timucua language is no longer spoken, written Timucua was extensively used as a medium of Franciscan evangelism in the seventeenth century; indeed, the Timucua catechisms from 1612 are the earliest written records in any Native language of the land that is now the United States. Two secular letters in the language also survive from that period. As a whole, the Timucua written corpus gives us incomparable insight into the Indigenous culture and history of early Florida.

This grammar is based on a thorough study of the extant printed and handwritten documents and on careful philological and comparative analysis of the corpus. Because the content of printed Timucua material often varies considerably from the Spanish text printed in parallel with it, careful study of Timucua grammar enables linguists, anthropologists, and historians to begin to read these critical texts in Florida and southeastern U.S. history.

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George Aaron Broadwell is the Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He won the 2023 Victor Golla Prize from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas and is the author of A Choctaw Reference Grammar (Nebraska, 2006).
 

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Editorial
University of Nebraska Press
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1496237781
ISBN 13 
9781496237781
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Número de páginas
470
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