1986/09/01 by Lyle Campbell, Terrence Kaufman, Thomas C. Smith-Stark · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistics #History #Psychology #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.2307/415477
openalex publication_date 1986/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/30
That Meso-America constitutes a legitimate linguistic area has been questioned. To address this question, concepts of ‘areal linguistics’ are here surveyed and refined. Proposed Meso-American areal traits are reconsidered against these findings, and are compared with those of other established linguistic areas. Meso-America proves to be a particularly strong linguistic area. These results contribute both to the study of Meso-American languages and to an understanding of areal linguistics generally.