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American Linguistics and Indigenous Languages by oussama HIRACHE is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the history of linguistics in America, focusing on efforts to document indigenous languages that were becoming extinct and the development of structural linguistics. It notes that early American linguists like Franz Boas were concerned with rigorously documenting unfamiliar languages without analyzing them through existing European language categories. The movement grew out of anthropology due to the urgency of preserving indigenous American languages. Key figures discussed include Le
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- oussama HIRACHE
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- EN