Perspectives and Problems of Amerindian Comparative Linguistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4168161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morris Swadesh (Denver School of Nursing, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 306-332 |
| Publication date | 1954-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | WORD (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00437956.1954.11659530 |
| OpenAlex | W2560220909 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
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 them with the new, now or at any future time, and hence to construct the best evidence of the derivation of this part of the human race.-Thomas Jefferson (in Notes on the State of Virginia
Construct (python library · Linguistics · Programming language · Race (biology · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Philosophy
Austronesian Languages of the Morobe District, Papua New Guinea
The Languages of the Andes
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Genetic relatedness of Tunisian Sign Language and French Sign Language
Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family
The Homogeneity of the Substrate as a Factor in Pidgin/Creole Genesis
Chance CVC Correspondences in Unrelated Languages
Lexicostatistics and the Classification of Huon Peninsula Languages
Betoi-Jirara, Sáliban, and Hod i
The Mathematical Assessment of Long‐Range Linguistic Relationships
Automatic Identification and Production of Related Words for Historical Linguistics
Gradual Modifications and Abrupt Replacements
The Glottochronology of Malagasy Speech Communities
The ABC'S of Lexicostatistics (Glottochronology)
Some Precontact Widespread Lexical Forms in the Languages of Greater Amazonia
Reconsidering the "Makú" Language Family of Northwest Amazonia
On so-Called Pan-Americanisms
Testing the Proto-Mayan-Mije-Sokean Hypothesis
Totozoquean
Lumping and splitting
Linguistic Organisation and Native Title
Mesoamerican Historical Linguistics and Distant Genetic Relationship
The Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Lexicostatistics So Far
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1955 - 2025 (71) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |