A computer-generated dictionary of proto-Algonquian

A computer-generated dictionary of proto-Algonquian
Author: John Hewson
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822892

This computer-generated dictionary of reconstructed Proto-Algonquian consists of 4,066 entries and an extensive index of English glosses.

History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 2. Teilband

History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 2. Teilband
Author: Sylvain Auroux
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 936
Release: 2008-07-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311019421X

Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first synthesized by Humboldt, as well as the development of various other non-historical endeavours in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, such as language and psychology, semantics, phonetics, and dialectology, receive ample attention.

Papers of the Fifty-Third Algonquian Conference / Actes du cinquante-troisième Congrès des Algonquinistes

Papers of the Fifty-Third Algonquian Conference / Actes du cinquante-troisième Congrès des Algonquinistes
Author: Inge Genee
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1609177592

Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed scholarship from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This series touches on a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, education, ethnography, history, Indigenous studies, language studies, literature, music, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Contributors often cite never-before-published data in their research, giving the reader a fresh and unique insight into the Algonquian peoples and rendering these papers essential reading for those interested in studying Algonquian society.

The Algonquian Inverse

The Algonquian Inverse
Author: Will Oxford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2023-11-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192871803

This book serves as a definitive reference for inverse morphology across all documented Algonquian languages. It considers not only the morphology of the inverse construction but also its syntax and pragmatics, giving equal weight to diachronic, typological, functional, and formal perspectives.

A Dictionary of Powhatan

A Dictionary of Powhatan
Author:
Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1889758620

This volume represents the largest vocabulary ever collected of Powhatan -- approximately 1,000 entries compiled by William Strachey around 1612. This edition is based on Major's 1849 printing of the British Museum manuscript, with variant forms and extra words cited from the Bodleian manuscript. Two supplementary word-lists of Virginia Algonquian are also included: nine words from an anonymous relation of 1607 attributed to Gabriel Archer, and 29 words from Robert Beverley's 1705 History and Present State of Virginia. This edition also features an introduction by Powhatan scholar Frederic Gleach.

The Miami-Illinois Language

The Miami-Illinois Language
Author: David J. Costa
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780803215146

The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region to the south of Lake Michigan in present-day Illinois and Indiana. The French and Indian War, followed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by massive influxes of white settlers into the Ohio River Valley, proved disastrous for both Native groups. Reduced in number by warfare and disease, the Illinois (now called the Peorias) along with half of the Miamis relocated first to Kansas and then to northeast Oklahoma, while the other half of the Miamis remained in northern Indiana. ø The Miami and the Illinois Native Americans speak closely related dialects of a language of the Algonquian language family. Linguist David J. Costa reconstructs key elements of their language from available historical sources, close textual analysis of surviving stories, and comparison with related Algonquian languages. The result is the first overview of the Miami-Illinois language.

Born in the Blood

Born in the Blood
Author: Brian Swann
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0803235410

An anthology of essays on the translation of Native American languages and literatures by top scholars in the field.

Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Author: Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2003-08-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3540364560

CICLing 2003 (www.CICLing.org) was the 4th annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. It was intended to provide a balanced view of the cutting-edge developments in both the theoretical foundations of computational linguistics and the practice of natural language text processing with its numerous applications. A feature of CICLing conferences is their wide scope that covers nearly all areas of computational linguistics and all aspects of natural language processing applications. The conference is a forum for dialogue between the specialists working in these two areas. This year we were honored by the presence of our keynote speakers Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, USA), Aravind Joshi (U. Pennsylvania, USA), Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton U., UK), and Ted Pedersen (U. Minnesota, USA), who delivered excellent extended lectures and organized vivid discussions. Of 92 submissions received, after careful reviewing 67 were selected for presentation; 43 as full papers and 24 as short papers, by 150 authors from 23 countries: Spain (23 authors), China (20), USA (16), Mexico (13), Japan (12), UK (11), Czech Republic (8), Korea and Sweden (7 each), Canada and Ireland (5 each), Hungary (4), Brazil (3), Belgium, Germany, Italy, Romania, Russia and Tunisia (2 each), Cuba, Denmark, Finland and France (1 each).

As Long as the Earth Endures

As Long as the Earth Endures
Author: David J. Costa
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2022-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1496229924

As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma. These texts, gathered from native speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea in the 1890s and the early twentieth century, span several genres, such as culture hero stories, trickster tales, animal stories, personal and historical narratives, how-to stories, and translations of Christian materials. These texts were collected from seven speakers: Frank Beaver, George Finley, Gabriel Godfroy, William Peconga, Thomas Richardville, Elizabeth Valley, and Sarah Wadsworth. Representing thirty years of study, almost all of the stories are published here for the first time. The texts are presented with their original transcriptions along with full, corrected modern transcriptions, translations, and grammatical analyses. Included with the texts are extensive annotation on all aspects of their meaning, pronunciation, and interpretation; a lengthy glossary explaining and analyzing in detail every word; and an introduction placing the texts in their philological, historical, linguistic, and folkloric context, with a discussion of how the stories compare to similar texts from neighboring Great Lakes Algonquian tribes.

Linguistic Preferences

Linguistic Preferences
Author: Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110721465

Preferences form a central concept of human categorization. They play an important role in disciplines ranging from psychology to economics and philosophy, from evolutionary biology to artificial intelligence, and, notably for this volume, in linguistics. This volume provides both theoretical and empirical contributions from linguistics to this interdisciplinary field of research.