Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico

by Franz; Powell Boas

Linguistics

Genres: Linguistics, Anthropology

Paperback

First published January 1, 1911

Reviews

[Serena.. Sery-ously? · Rating 5 out of 5]

Regalo del mio relatore di laurea (♥):

"A Serena,
per assecondare i suoi interessi per l'etnolinguistica"

Napoli, 14/07/2015

[Queme · Rating 5 out of 5]

A student of linguistics who rates this book this year could conceivably give a rating of two or three stars, four if they are either generous or haven't read much literature in linguistic theories and history. For a student of philology, and particularly for a student of American Indian languages of a previous century, the book surely deserves five stars. For its time, for its treatment of the subject, for the details which produced it, and the intellect which composed it, it is nearly incomparable.

The next great book in linguistics (with much reference to American Indian languages) from a former era that I read after this one was Benjamin Lee Whorf's Language, Thought and Reality. Those two books set my interest firmly in the direction of linguistics and piqued my interest in American Indian languages. Boas' book will aways be a star on my shelf.

[Tim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Written in 1911 and 1880 respectively. Interesting for the method of analysis and writing and probably for the content, though it is too technical for me.

[Marco Valeri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Il libro è sicuramente molto interessante ma senza essendo solo l'introduzione di un testo (anche se colossale) perde un po' di significato in quanto i riferimenti alle singole lingue o famiglie è scarso e poco documentato