Morris Swadesh
Biographic Data
| ID | 151981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morris Swadesh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morris |
| FAMILY NAME | Swadesh |
| SIGNATURE | SWADESH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 403 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Phonemic Principle
As basic as the phonemic principle is to linguistic science, it is only quite recently that it has had the serious attention of linguists. In studying the phonemes of Chitimacha (an Indian language of Louisiana) I knew of no single source from which I could learn to understand all the phenomena that I observed. There seemed to be a need for an adequate and complete exposition of the phonemic principle including, especially, an account of how it a…
The Origin and Diversification of Language
Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language. This volume, left nearly completed at his death and edited posthumously by Joel F. Sherzer, is his last major study of this difficult subject.Swadesh discusses the simple qualities of human speech also present in animal language, and establishes distinctively human techniques of expr…
The Problem of Consonantal Doublets in Indo-European
Linguistics
Language universals and research efficiency in descriptive linguistics
Thirty years ago the leitmotif of ethnology and linguistics was militant relativism. It was emphasized that each culture and each language is a world of its own with its own elements and arrangements, its own standards, and its own laws. It was often, though not always, clearly recognized that, running across the differences, there were points of agreement among different systems. In the effort to avoid ethnocentrically based errors, the principl…
Conversational Chinese for Beginners (Formerly Titled)
Kalapuya and Takelma
A Punchcard System of Cognate Hunting
The Grammatical Structure of Oaxaca Chontal. Viola Grace Waterhouse
On Aboriginal Languages of Latin America
Aleut dialects of Atka and Attu
Linguistic Relations Across Bering Strait
The Oto-Manguean Hypothesis and Macro Mixtecan
Sistema fonemico del Macoita
Some Findings on Oaxaca Language Classification and Culture Terms
Linguistics as an Instrument of Prehistory
Subject and Predicate
Native Accounts of Nootka Ethnography
Songs of the Nootka Indians of Western Vancouver Island
Kurze Grammatik der alten Quiche-Sprache in Popol Vuh
Problems of Long-Range Comparison in Penutian
Among Alfred L. Kroeber's many great contributions to the sciences of society, some of the most important are in the field of linguistics. They include both descriptive and comparative research, and embrace theory as well as documentation. He has paid considerable attention to the question of linguistic diffusion, tracing and analyzing specific examples of morphologic and lexical borrowing among California Indian languages and developing the theo…
Enemy Way Music
Some Limitations of Diffusional Change in Vocabulary
Songs of the Nootka Indians of Western Vancouver Island
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Chemakum Lexicon Compared with Quileute
Towards Greater Accuracy in Lexicostatistic Dating
Salish Internal Relationships
The Phonemic Principle
As basic as the phonemic principle is to linguistic science, it is only quite recently that it has had the serious attention of linguists. In studying the phonemes of Chitimacha (an Indian language of Louisiana) I knew of no single source from which I could learn to understand all the phenomena that I observed. There seemed to be a need for an adequate and complete exposition of the phonemic principle including, especially, an account of how it a…
Jicaque as a Hokan Language
Diffusional Cumulation and Archaic Residue as Historical Explanations
Nootka Internal Syntax
Sociologic Notes on Obsolescent Languages
Perspectives and Problems of Amerindian Comparative Linguistics
Were vocabularies formed of all the languages spoken in North and South America, preserving their appelation of the most common objects in nature, of those which must be present to every nation, barbarians or civilized, with the inflections of their names and verbs, their principles of regimen and concord, and these deposited in all the public libraries, it would furnish opportunities to those skilled in the languages of the old world to compare …
The Phonemic Structure of Proto-Zapotec
Kleinschmidt Centennial V
Linguistic Relations Across Bering Strait
Mosan I
Time Depths of American Linguistic Groupings
A Problem in Phonological Alternation
One may expect to find instances of phonologic (morpho-phonemic) alternation in almost any language. In English there are changes in consonants, vowels, and stress, insertions, and elisions; and many of these are conditioned only by the phonetic surroundings of the morphemes. An example is the possessive suffix, which is - əz (or - ı z ) after a sibilant, - z after a voiced non-sibilant, - s after a voiceless non-sibilant
A Structural Trend in Nootka
Phonologic Formulas for Atakapa-Chitimacha
American Indian Grammatical Categories
This article investigates grammatical categories in several American Indian languages, aiming to demonstrate that these languages exhibit unique structural features that challenge traditional Indo-European-based grammatical classifications. Sapir and Swadesh analyze phenomena such as nominal classification, verb morphology, and pronominal systems, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of grammatical universals and the diversity of linguistic s…
Linguistics as an Instrument of Prehistory
Motivations in Nootka Warfare
The Oto-Manguean Hypothesis and Macro Mixtecan
On the Penutian Vocabulary Survey
Mosan II
Kleinschmidt Centennial III
Some Findings on Oaxaca Language Classification and Culture Terms
Problems of Long-Range Comparison in Penutian
Among Alfred L. Kroeber's many great contributions to the sciences of society, some of the most important are in the field of linguistics. They include both descriptive and comparative research, and embrace theory as well as documentation. He has paid considerable attention to the question of linguistic diffusion, tracing and analyzing specific examples of morphologic and lexical borrowing among California Indian languages and developing the theo…
The Expression of the Ending-Point Relation in English, French, and German
Chitimacha Verbs of Derogatory or Abusive Connotation with Parallels from European Languages
A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text (With Translation and Grammatical Analysis)
The Phonemic Principle
As basic as the phonemic principle is to linguistic science, it is only quite recently that it has had the serious attention of linguists. In studying the phonemes of Chitimacha (an Indian language of Louisiana) I knew of no single source from which I could learn to understand all the phenomena that I observed. There seemed to be a need for an adequate and complete exposition of the phonemic principle including, especially, an account of how it a…
The Phonetics of Chitimacha
Some Orthographic Recommendations
The Vowels of Chicago English
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Twaddell on Defining the Phoneme Lang. Monograph No. 16
Quileute . Manuel J. Andrade
The Vowels of Chicago English
A Manual of Russian Pronunciation
Phonemic Contrasts
General
The Phonemic Interpretation of Long Consonants
Is phonemic procedure arbitrary? It can be, but I submit that it need not be. If one defines a phoneme as ‘one of an exhaustive list of classes of sounds in a language’ 1 , one admits an endless variety of treatments and the choice of one or another treatment is arbitrary. The ideal of exhaustiveness is not in itself sufficient to define a unique scientific procedure: But if we also take the ideals of simplicity and self-consistency, we have the …
Zuni
The Phonemic Interpretation of Long Consonants
A Method for Phonetic Accuracy and Speed
Bibliography of American Indian Linguistics 1936-1937
Investigaciones Lingüisticas
Nootka Internal Syntax
Edward Sapir
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A Problem in Phonological Alternation
One may expect to find instances of phonologic (morpho-phonemic) alternation in almost any language. In English there are changes in consonants, vowels, and stress, insertions, and elisions; and many of these are conditioned only by the phonetic surroundings of the morphemes. An example is the possessive suffix, which is - əz (or - ı z ) after a sibilant, - z after a voiced non-sibilant, - s after a voiceless non-sibilant
Nootka Texts
Phonologic Formulas for Atakapa-Chitimacha
American Indian Grammatical Categories
This article investigates grammatical categories in several American Indian languages, aiming to demonstrate that these languages exhibit unique structural features that challenge traditional Indo-European-based grammatical classifications. Sapir and Swadesh analyze phenomena such as nominal classification, verb morphology, and pronominal systems, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of grammatical universals and the diversity of linguistic s…
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