Linguistic Natural History: John Wesley Powell and the Classification of American Languages. From: Journal of the Southwest | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: SHAUL, D. LEEDOM | COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Arizona. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

John Wesley Powell was the first to perform a thorough analysis and classification of the languages of Native Americans north of Mexico. This article discusses his contributions to anthropological linguistics, the state of Americanist linguistics before his research, the movement towards the establishment of a natural history of languages and an intercontinental classification of race, and the tracing of cultural knowledge through the intergenerational transmission of language.

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