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Guice, Stephen A. – 1987
The contributions of Peter Stephen DuPonceau and John Pickering to American linguistics in the early nineteenth century are reviewed and discussed. Despite their probable status as amateurs in the study of American Indian languages and their very limited fieldwork, they made some significant contributions to the general field of language studies…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Authors, Grammar, Intellectual History
Mazas, Jose Garcia – AGENDA, 1980
Covering a 500-year span, this article traces the changes in and evolution of the Spanish language from its earliest written accounts in the eleventh century to the Spanish that was brought by the Conquistadores to the New World. (DS)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Styles, Language Variation
