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"With One Lip, With Two Lips"; Parallelism in Nahuatl.

Author: William Bright
Edition/Format: Article Article : English
Publication:Language, v66 n3 p437-52 Sep 1990
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Texts in Classical Nahuatl from 1524, in the genre of formal oratory, reveal extensive use of lines showing parallel morphosyntactic and semantic structure. Analysis and translation of a passage point to the applicability of structural analysis to "expressive" as well as "referential" texts; and the importance of understanding oral literatures in light of their inherent esthetic principles. (34  Read more...
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Document Type: Article
All Authors / Contributors: William Bright
ISSN:0097-8507
OCLC Number: 93070246
Language Note: English
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Texts in Classical Nahuatl from 1524, in the genre of formal oratory, reveal extensive use of lines showing parallel morphosyntactic and semantic structure. Analysis and translation of a passage point to the applicability of structural analysis to "expressive" as well as "referential" texts; and the importance of understanding oral literatures in light of their inherent esthetic principles. (34 references) (JL)

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