Hidatsa Suprasegmentals

Hidatsa Suprasegmentals
Author: Norman A. Bowers
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1996
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Spectrographic analysis is used to provide a scientific study of the phonetic patterns of accent, pitch, drift, and intonation, demonstrating that they are predictable phenomena. Bowers also shows that these features can be accounted for by an ordered set of grammatically conditioned rules and by utilization of diacritics.

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
Author: Carmen Dagostino
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 998
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110712741

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

The Languages of Native North America

The Languages of Native North America
Author: Marianne Mithun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2001-06-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521298759

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.

Morphological Length and Prosodically Defective Morphemes

Morphological Length and Prosodically Defective Morphemes
Author: Eva Zimmermann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198747322

This work examines specific sound changes that cannot be explained by phonological means alone but crucially rely on morphological information. It offers a unified theoretical account of these phenomena as well as a rich database of attested patterns in the world's languages

Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Author: Robert Singerman
Publisher: Native American Bibliography
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Cites without annotation over 1,600 dissertations and master's thesis from US, Canadian, and British institutions that cover the languages of tribal groups in the entire western hemisphere. Notes any publication as well as the full title, institution, date, and often reference number. Arranged by language family. A general sections includes works on such subjects as personal names, loan words, and sign language. Indexed by author, language, dialect, and tribe. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR