ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Exploring the Deep History of Southern Uto-Aztecan Languages and Peoples: A Mixed Methods Approach
A thousand years before Europeans arrived in the Americas, a vast region, covering what is now North-western Mexico and the US Southwest, was inhabited by speakers of languages belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language family. Often described as nomads in a hostile periphery between the cultures of Mesoamerica and the Puebloan cultures of the US Southwest, this project puts the speakers of Southern Uto-Aztecan (SUA) languages at the centre, seeking to achieve two objectives: 1. To recover aspects of ancient SUA people's language and world-view 2. To map cultural and linguistic flows moving through the SUA-sphere in the millennia before European colonization. The project brings to bear the full…
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