Terrence Kaufman

Terrence Kaufman es un lingüista estadounidense.

Se especializa en la documentación de idiomas no escritos, lexicografía, lingüística histórica y fenómenos de contacto entre lenguas, y se ha dedicado a las lenguas aborígenes del continente americano.

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Kaufman se doctoró en lingüística en la Universidad de California en Berkeley en 1963. Ha realizado estudios descriptivos y comparativos de las familias de lenguas mayas, siux, hokanas, uto-aztecas, mixezoqueanas y otomangues.^[1] Si bien su énfasis es la recopilación de documentación empírica de lenguas no escritas, muchos de sus artículos, en coautoría con otros académicos de la talla de Lyle Campbell, Sarah Thomason y John Justeson, han sido altamente influyentes.

Actualmente, Kaufman es profesor en el departamento de antropología de la Universidad de Pittsburgh.

Campbell, Lyle, and Terrence Kaufman. 1976. "A Linguistic Look at the Olmec." American Antiquity 41(1):80-89.
Campbell, Lyle, and Terrence Kaufman. 1981. "On Mesoamerican linguistics." American Anthropologist 82:850-857.
Campbell, Lyle, Terrence Kaufman and Thomas C. Smith-Stark. "Meso-America as a Linguistic Area", Language Vol. 62, No. 3 (Sep., 1986), pp. 530–570.
Campbell, Lyle, Terrence Kaufman, "Mayan Linguistics: Where are we Now?" Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 14, 1985 (1985), pp. 187–198.
Justeson, John, and Terrence Kaufman. 1993. "A decipherment of epi-Olmec hieroglyphic writing". Science 259:1703-1711.
Kaufman, Terrence. 1976. "Archaeological and Linguistic Correlations in Mayaland and Associated Areas of Meso-America" World Archaeology, Vol. 8, No. 1, Archaeology and Linguistics (Jun., 1976), pp. 101–118
Kaufman, Terrence. 1988. "A Research Program for Reconstructing Proto-Hokan: First Gropings." In Scott DeLancey, ed. Papers from the 1988 Hokan–Penutian Languages Workshop, pp. 50–168. Eugene, Oregon: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon. (University of Oregon Papers in Linguistics. Publications of the Center for Amerindian Linguistics and Ethnography 1.)
Kaufman, Terrence. 1990. "Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more." In David L. Payne, ed. Amazonian Linguistics, pp. 13–74. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Justeson, John, William Norman, Lyle Campbell, and Terrence Kaufman. The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script. Middle American Research Institute Publication 53.
Kaufman, Terrence (1972). El Proto-Tzeltal-Tzotzil. Fonología comparada y diccionario reconstruido. México, UNAM.
Thomason, Sarah G., and Terrence Kaufman (1988). Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07893-4.

↑ Kaufman & Justeson 2009. (1983 New Perspectives on Comparative Otomanguean Phonology. Excerpts presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1983. Complete manuscript on file, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. 1988 Otomangean Tense/Aspect/Mood, Voice, and Nominalization Markers. Manuscript on file, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.)

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Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages, The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, Oxford University Press
Houston, Stephen, and Coe, Michael. 2004. "Has Isthmian Writing Been Deciphered?", in Mexicon XXV:151-161.
Brigham Young University press release on behalf of Brigham Young University archaeologist Stephen Houston and Yale University professor emeritus Michael Coe disputing Justeson/Kaufman findings.
Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica
Kaufman's faculty page at the University of Pittsburgh