Floyd G Lounsbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Floyd G Lounsbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Floyd G |
| FAMILY NAME | Lounsbury |
| SIGNATURE | LOUNSBURY F G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems
PROBLEMSphers and others who had always exhibited some interest in language developed a renewed concern for the field.But their various lines of approach to the problem of language were in some respects remarkably disparate.The descriptive linguists discussing phonemes, the communications engineers discussing binary digits, and the psychologist discussing linguistic responses seemed most of the time to be engaged in wholly separate conversations.…
Linguistic and Ethnographic Data Pertinent to the "Cage" Glyph of Dresden 36c
Stretched across the botton third of pages 33-39 of the Dresden Codex is a display of the subdivisions of a tzolkin, spelled out in greater detail than is found in the usual compact and schematic manner of representation. It is of the 4x65 variety, rather than the 5x52. The 260-day period is divided into four equal divisions of 65 days each, unequal subdivisions. In this case there are five of these, of 9, 11, 20, 10, and 15 days length respectiv…
Distinguished Lecture: Recent Work in the Decipherment of Palenque's Hieroglyphic Inscriptions
This essay was delivered as the Distinguished Lecture at the 89th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 1, 1990, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Some aspects of the Inka kinship system
Data on the meanings of Inka kinship terms during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries are found in the following sources: the Arte and the Vocabulario of Domingo de Santo Tomás, printed in Valladolid, both in the year 1560; the anonymous Arte de la lengua general (attributed to Juan Martinez Ormaechea), printed in Seville first in 1586 and again in 1603, and then in Lima in 1604 and 1614; the Arte and the Vocabulario of Diego Gonza…
Classic Maya Prediction of Solar Eclipses [and Comments and Reply]
Work by earlier scholars has shown that the Dresden Codex contains a table of temporal intervals appropriate to the cyclic occurrence of solar eclipses. This paper demonstrates that if the Maya calendrical dates in the table are converted to the Gregorian calendar by using the so-called Modified Thompson 2 correlation constant, the table gives very accurate warnings of solar eclipses for the late-8th-century A.D. span to which it refers. During t…
Aspects du système de parenté inca
Pour la période qui va de la fin du XVIe siècle au début du XVIIe, les matériaux susceptibles d'éclairer la signification des termes de parenté inca figurent dans les sources suivantes : l'Arte et le Vocabulario, de Domingo de Santo Tomas, imprimés tous deux à Valladolid, en 1560 ; l'Arte de la lengua general, ouvrage anonyme (attribué à Juan Martínez Oramechea), imprimé pour la première fois en 1586 à Séville où il fut réimprimé en 1603, puis à …
Linguistics and Psychology
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.
Ethnographic Semantics: A Preliminary Survey [and Comments and Replies]
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
Another View of the Trobriand Kinship Categories1
Iroquois Place-Names in the Champlain Valley
A Semantic Analysis of the Pawnee Kinship Usage
This paper presents a formal semantic analysis of Pawnee kinship terminology, demonstrating how a seemingly complex and irregular system can be understood through a set of underlying rules and principles. Lounsbury utilizes componential analysis, a structuralist approach, to break down kinship terms into their constituent semantic features, such as generation, sex, and lineality. He argues that the Pawnee system, despite its surface variations, r…
Oneida Verb Morphology
Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture. William N. Fenton
Études linguistiques caribes
Stray Number Systems Among Certain Indian Tribes
A Semantic Analysis of the Pawnee Kinship Usage
This paper presents a formal semantic analysis of Pawnee kinship terminology, demonstrating how a seemingly complex and irregular system can be understood through a set of underlying rules and principles. Lounsbury utilizes componential analysis, a structuralist approach, to break down kinship terms into their constituent semantic features, such as generation, sex, and lineality. He argues that the Pawnee system, despite its surface variations, r…
Another View of the Trobriand Kinship Categories1
Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems
PROBLEMSphers and others who had always exhibited some interest in language developed a renewed concern for the field.But their various lines of approach to the problem of language were in some respects remarkably disparate.The descriptive linguists discussing phonemes, the communications engineers discussing binary digits, and the psychologist discussing linguistic responses seemed most of the time to be engaged in wholly separate conversations.…
Ethnographic Semantics: A Preliminary Survey [and Comments and Replies]
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
Classic Maya Prediction of Solar Eclipses [and Comments and Reply]
Work by earlier scholars has shown that the Dresden Codex contains a table of temporal intervals appropriate to the cyclic occurrence of solar eclipses. This paper demonstrates that if the Maya calendrical dates in the table are converted to the Gregorian calendar by using the so-called Modified Thompson 2 correlation constant, the table gives very accurate warnings of solar eclipses for the late-8th-century A.D. span to which it refers. During t…
Distinguished Lecture: Recent Work in the Decipherment of Palenque's Hieroglyphic Inscriptions
This essay was delivered as the Distinguished Lecture at the 89th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 1, 1990, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Stray Number Systems Among Certain Indian Tribes
Aspects du système de parenté inca
Pour la période qui va de la fin du XVIe siècle au début du XVIIe, les matériaux susceptibles d'éclairer la signification des termes de parenté inca figurent dans les sources suivantes : l'Arte et le Vocabulario, de Domingo de Santo Tomas, imprimés tous deux à Valladolid, en 1560 ; l'Arte de la lengua general, ouvrage anonyme (attribué à Juan Martínez Oramechea), imprimé pour la première fois en 1586 à Séville où il fut réimprimé en 1603, puis à …
Stray Number Systems Among Certain Indian Tribes
Études linguistiques caribes
Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture. William N. Fenton
Oneida Verb Morphology
A Semantic Analysis of the Pawnee Kinship Usage
This paper presents a formal semantic analysis of Pawnee kinship terminology, demonstrating how a seemingly complex and irregular system can be understood through a set of underlying rules and principles. Lounsbury utilizes componential analysis, a structuralist approach, to break down kinship terms into their constituent semantic features, such as generation, sex, and lineality. He argues that the Pawnee system, despite its surface variations, r…
Iroquois Place-Names in the Champlain Valley
Another View of the Trobriand Kinship Categories1
Ethnographic Semantics: A Preliminary Survey [and Comments and Replies]
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
Linguistics and Psychology
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.
Aspects du système de parenté inca
Pour la période qui va de la fin du XVIe siècle au début du XVIIe, les matériaux susceptibles d'éclairer la signification des termes de parenté inca figurent dans les sources suivantes : l'Arte et le Vocabulario, de Domingo de Santo Tomas, imprimés tous deux à Valladolid, en 1560 ; l'Arte de la lengua general, ouvrage anonyme (attribué à Juan Martínez Oramechea), imprimé pour la première fois en 1586 à Séville où il fut réimprimé en 1603, puis à …
Classic Maya Prediction of Solar Eclipses [and Comments and Reply]
Work by earlier scholars has shown that the Dresden Codex contains a table of temporal intervals appropriate to the cyclic occurrence of solar eclipses. This paper demonstrates that if the Maya calendrical dates in the table are converted to the Gregorian calendar by using the so-called Modified Thompson 2 correlation constant, the table gives very accurate warnings of solar eclipses for the late-8th-century A.D. span to which it refers. During t…
Some aspects of the Inka kinship system
Data on the meanings of Inka kinship terms during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries are found in the following sources: the Arte and the Vocabulario of Domingo de Santo Tomás, printed in Valladolid, both in the year 1560; the anonymous Arte de la lengua general (attributed to Juan Martinez Ormaechea), printed in Seville first in 1586 and again in 1603, and then in Lima in 1604 and 1614; the Arte and the Vocabulario of Diego Gonza…
Distinguished Lecture: Recent Work in the Decipherment of Palenque's Hieroglyphic Inscriptions
This essay was delivered as the Distinguished Lecture at the 89th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 1, 1990, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Linguistic and Ethnographic Data Pertinent to the "Cage" Glyph of Dresden 36c
Stretched across the botton third of pages 33-39 of the Dresden Codex is a display of the subdivisions of a tzolkin, spelled out in greater detail than is found in the usual compact and schematic manner of representation. It is of the 4x65 variety, rather than the 5x52. The 260-day period is divided into four equal divisions of 65 days each, unequal subdivisions. In this case there are five of these, of 9, 11, 20, 10, and 15 days length respectiv…
Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems
PROBLEMSphers and others who had always exhibited some interest in language developed a renewed concern for the field.But their various lines of approach to the problem of language were in some respects remarkably disparate.The descriptive linguists discussing phonemes, the communications engineers discussing binary digits, and the psychologist discussing linguistic responses seemed most of the time to be engaged in wholly separate conversations.…
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