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Publication details [#30329]

Martin, Jack. 1994. Modeling language contact in the prehistory of the southeastern United States. In Kwachka, Patricia B., ed. Perspectives on the Southeast: Linguistics, archeology, and ethnohistory. (Southern Anthropological Association Proceedings 27). University of Georgia Press. pp. 14–24.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language contact | language spread | power

Language as a subject

Languages, Native American

Annotation

This paper explores the diffusion of a small set of indigenous and European loanwords and uses these patterns of linguistic borrowing to define areas of cultural and political influence among early populations.