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Publication details [#30235]

Brown, Cecil H. 1996. A widespread marking reversal in languages of the Southeastern United States. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (3) : 439–460.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | language contact | marking | term coordination

Language as a subject

Languages, Native American

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper deals with the use of marking reversals in native southeastern American languages, i.. a reference shift in native words, to designate European-introduced items, such as, for instance, peach and pig.