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- Albany is bustling with both new and old language communities. Similar efforts with more varied data-gathering tactics would greatly benefit other American urban landscapes. (1)
- And Colonial Valley Zapotec (1)
- As a case study in urban language mapping (1)
- Copala triqui (1)
- Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics) (1)
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- Emotion (1)
- Following the example of many other language mapping projects (1)
- Historical Linguistics (1)
- Linguistics (1)
- Most notably the NYC Language Mapping Project. Albany's languages and linguistic features were analyzed to better understand the area's linguistic ecology and ongoing heritage-language maintenance efforts. Various types of American Census data were compared to reach the conclusions. Despite not being a major city (1)
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- This thesis uses Albany (1)
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Albany City As A Case Study In Language Mapping, Storm Pupina
Albany City As A Case Study In Language Mapping, Storm Pupina
Linguistics
This thesis uses Albany, NY, as a case study in urban language mapping, following the example of many other language mapping projects, most notably the NYC Language Mapping Project. Albany's languages and linguistic features were analyzed to better understand the area's linguistic ecology and ongoing heritage-language maintenance efforts. Various types of American Census data were compared to reach the conclusions. Despite not being a major city, Albany is bustling with both new and old language communities. Similar efforts with more varied data-gathering tactics would greatly benefit other American urban landscapes.
The Development Of Statives In Colonial Valley Zapotec, George Aaron Broadwell
The Development Of Statives In Colonial Valley Zapotec, George Aaron Broadwell
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
This paper describes the semantics of the Colonial Valley Zapotec aspect prefix WA- (orthographic hua- ~oa-) and its diachronic development in modern Valley and Isthmus Zapotec.
The Copala Triqui Auxiliary Construction For Emotional And Psychological Predicates, George Aaron Broadwell
The Copala Triqui Auxiliary Construction For Emotional And Psychological Predicates, George Aaron Broadwell
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Copala Triqui has a construction in which predicates of emotion and psychological state appear with one of two special auxiliary verbs, derived historically from verbs meaning 'see' and 'look'. This paper details the constraints on the syntax of the emotion auxiliary construction and contrasts it with the ordinary verbal syntax of the language. (Ethnologue code TRC)