Linguistic Natural History: John Wesley Powell and the Classification of American Languages.: An article from: Journal of the Southwest

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From the supplier: John Wesley Powell was the first to perform a thorough analysis and classification of the languages of Native Americans north of Mexico. This article discusses his contributions to anthropological linguistics, the state of Americanist linguistics before his research, the movement towards the establishment of a natural history of languages and an intercontinental classification of race, and the tracing of cultural knowledge through the intergenerational transmission of language.

Citation Details
Title: Linguistic Natural History: John Wesley Powell and the Classification of American Languages.
Author: D. Leedom Shaul
Publication:Journal of the Southwest (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: University of Arizona
Volume: 41 Issue: 3 Page: 297

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