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| Author | : Shirley Silver |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780816521395 |
This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
| Author | : Lyle Campbell |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : America |
| ISBN | : 0195140508 |
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
| Author | : Marianne Mithun |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 800 |
| Release | : 2001-06-07 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1107392802 |
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
| Author | : Leanne Hinton |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0520097890 |
This collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists today. Half of the essays treat Hokan languages, but Uto-Aztecan, Penutian, Muskogean, Iroquoian, Mayan, and other groups are also represented, with pieces on phonology, syntax, the lexicon, and discourse.
| Author | : Franz Boas |
| Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
| Total Pages | : 920 |
| Release | : 2018-02-08 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9781377147338 |
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| Author | : Victor Golla |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2011-09-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520266676 |
"Victor Golla has been the leading scholar of California Indian languages for most of his professional life, and this book shows why. His ability to synthesize centuries of fieldwork and writings while bringing forward new ideas and fresh ways of looking at California’s famous linguistic diversity will make this the primary text for anyone interested in California languages."--Leanne Hinton, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley and author of How to Keep Your Language Alive “This book is a wonderful contribution that only Golla could have written. It is a perfect confluence of author and subject matter.”--Ives Goddard, Senior Linguist, Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution "Golla is a gifted polymath and California Indian Languages is certainly his landmark achievement, required reading for any linguist, archaeologist, ethnographer, or historian interested in aboriginal California."--Robert L. Bettinger, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Davis and author of Hunter-Gatherer Foraging "The preeminent figure in his field, Victor Golla has written a masterpiece filled with treasures for every audience: Indian communities working toward cultural and linguistic revival; general readers interested in the many cultures of Native California; and scholars in the fields of language, archaeology, and prehistory. The information here is so detailed that it supersedes all previous reference works."--Andrew Garrett, Professor of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley and Director, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages “This is a truly magnificent work, at once authoritative, comprehensive, accessible to a wide readership, and fascinating. Masterfully integrating linguistic, archaeological, historical, and cultural information, the author describes not just the languages, but also the major figures in the story: speakers, explorers, missionaries, and scholars. It is beautifully written, a great pleasure to read, and difficult to put down."--Marianne Mithun, author of The Languages of Native North America
| Author | : Adrianna Link |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 2021-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1496224337 |
The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society’s library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.
| Author | : Franz Boas |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 1966 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780803250178 |
Two major anthropological works study the roots, structure, and classification of Indian languages.
| Author | : Lyle Campbell |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 765 |
| Release | : 2012-01-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311025803X |
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
| Author | : Jeffrey E. Davis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2010-07-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0521870100 |
Describes a unique case of sign language that served as an international language among numerous Native American nations not sharing a common spoken language. The book contains the most current descriptions of all levels of the language from phonology to discourse, as well as comparisons with other sign languages.
