Conference: The Use(fulness) of Nauatl Dialects Spoken Today for the Study of Written Nauatl from the 16th and 17th Centuries
Event Date:
Thursday, February 5, 2015 -
10:30am to 3:00pm
Event Location:
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall
Part Two of a two-day conference organized by the UCLA Latin American Institute.
10:30 am -12:00 pm
How Polysynthetic is Nahuatl?
Una Canger, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen
1:30 pm -3:00 pm
The Nahuatl Language Text of the Codex Sierra, 1550-1564
Professor Kevin Terraciano (History, UCLA) will examine the
Nahuatl-language text of a 62-page manuscript known as the
Codex Sierra, which was written in the Mixteca Alta region of
Oaxaca, Mexico. Dr, Canger will comment on the findings.
Professor Kevin Terraciano (History, UCLA) will examine the
Nahuatl-language text of a 62-page manuscript known as the
Codex Sierra, which was written in the Mixteca Alta region of
Oaxaca, Mexico. Dr, Canger will comment on the findings.
Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Linguistics Department, UCLA History Department, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC).
This event is FREE.
For more information, visit: http://web.international.ucla.edu/lai/calendar/11017
