• Terrence Kaufman (1937 – March 3, 2022) was an American linguist specializing in documentation of unwritten languages, lexicography, Mesoamerican historical...
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    at the preclassic sites of Kaminaljuyu, Takalik Abaj, and Izapa. Terrence Kaufman and Lyle Campbell have argued, based on a number of widespread loanwords...
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    Isthmian script artifact: 450–300 BCE. In a 1993 paper, John Justeson and Terrence Kaufman proposed a partial decipherment of the Isthmian text found on the La...
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    reconstructions of Proto-Oto-Manguean grammar have also been made by Terrence Kaufman. In spite of the lack of a full published reconstruction of proto-Oto-Manguean...
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    published by the German antiquarian and scholar Karl Sapper in 1912. Terrence Kaufman and John Justeson have reconstructed more than 3000 lexical items for...
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    c. 200 CE, the urban population had reached its maximum. In 2001, Terrence Kaufman presented linguistic evidence suggesting that an important ethnic group...
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  • poorly attested to classify within Cariban with any confidence, though Terrence Kaufman links it to the extinct Tiverikoto. A few of the attested words are:...
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  • linguists, including the following: James Matisoff Margaret Langdon Terrence Kaufman Anthony C. Woodbury William O. Bright William A. Foley John W. Du Bois...
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  • Terrence Kaufman (1993), A Decipherment of Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing. Science, 19 March 1993, pp. 1703–1711. Justeson, John S.; Terrence Kaufman...
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    Olmec were Maya predecessors. In 1976, linguists Lyle Campbell and Terrence Kaufman published a paper in which they argued a core number of loanwords had...
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    75. Wichmann, 1995 Campbell and Kaufman (1976). Kaufman, 1976 Houston, Robertson, and Stuart (2000). Kaufman, Terrence, (2001) "Nawa Linguistic Prehistory"...
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    mesos or "center" and America. Caso (1971, p.333) John S. Justeson and Terrence Kaufman. "Mesoamerican Calendars". In David Carrasco (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia...
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    family. This claim has not been accepted by historical linguists. Terrence Kaufman wondered if Hokan might be related to Oto-Mangean of Central America...
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    contact-induced language change, American linguists Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman (1991) stated that in situations of cultural pressure (where populations...
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  • Language Contact (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell 2010) Sarah Thomason and Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization and Genetic Linguistics (University...
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    Cuicatec, and Mixtec, is an open question. Unpublished research by Terrence Kaufman in the 1980s supported grouping Cuicatec and Mixtec together. The urheimat...
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  • the people and their language, and this has caused some (for example Terrence Kaufman 2001) to speculate that they were the original inhabitants of the city...
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  • (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) by Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman, and a series of publications on various aspects of Cappadocian linguistics...
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    The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh Justeson, John S., and Terrence Kaufman (1993), "A Decipherment of Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing" in Science...
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    dialectologists such as Una Canger, Karen Dakin, Yolanda Lastra, and Terrence Kaufman have preferred to include Pipil within the General Aztecan branch,...
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    accent and the reflexes of West Germanic vowels. Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman: Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics, University...
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    Delaware from 2009 to 2010 Terrence Kaufman (1937–2022), linguist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh Theodore N. Kaufman (1910–1986), businessman...
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  • the original on 2012-03-13, retrieved 2010-09-25. Campbell, Lyle, Terrence Kaufman, and Thomas C. Smith-Stark. "Meso-America as a linguistic area." Language...
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    book by Alice Roberts. [better source needed] Although others such as Terrence Kaufman have suggested that Tartessian may be a Celtic language, this proposal...
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    John S., and Terrence Kaufman (2001) Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing and Texts Archived 2011-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Kaufman, Terrence (2000) "Early...
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  • Mesoamerica. This proposal was examined closely by Lyle Campbell and Terrence Kaufman who rejected the proposal because of serious flaws in the methodology...
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    Terrence Frederick Malick (/ˈmælɪk/; born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. His films include Badlands (1973); Days of Heaven (1978); The Thin...
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  • Quechuamara was originally posted by linguist Norman McQuown in 1955. Terrence Kaufman finds the proposal reasonably convincing, but Willem Adelaar, a Quechua...
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    between 1652 and 1672 had a Dutch father. Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman argue that Afrikaans' development as a separate language was "heavily...
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    (1992) adduced phonological evidence in the form of a sound law. Terrence Kaufman in Kaufman (1981) accepted the basic division into Northern and Southern...
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