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| Author | : John Wesley Powell |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in advance of civilization, and civilization itself has marched across the continent at a rapid rate. Under these conditions the languages of the various tribes have received much study. Many extensive works have been published, embracing grammars and dictionaries; but a far greater number of minor vocabularies have been collected and very many have been published. In addition to these, the Bible, in whole or in part, and various religious books and school books, have been translated into Indian tongues to be used for purposes of instruction; and newspapers have been published in the Indian languages. Altogether the literature of these languages and that relating to them are of vast extent.
| 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : John Wesley Powell |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 610 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in advance of civilization, and civilization itself has marched across the continent at a rapid rate. Under these conditions the languages of the various tribes have received much study. Many extensive works have been published, embracing grammars and dictionaries; but a far greater number of minor vocabularies have been collected and very many have been published. In addition to these, the Bible, in whole or in part, and various religious books and school books, have been translated into Indian tongues to be used for purposes of instruction; and newspapers have been published in the Indian languages. Altogether the literature of these languages and that relating to them are of vast extent.
| Author | : John Wesley Powell |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2018-04-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 8026888626 |
The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes, travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in advance of civilization, and civilization itself has marched across the continent at a rapid rate. Under these conditions the languages of the various tribes have received much study. Many extensive works have been published, embracing grammars and dictionaries; but a far greater number of minor vocabularies have been collected and very many have been published. In addition to these, the Bible, in whole or in part, and various religious books and school books, have been translated into Indian tongues to be used for purposes of instruction; and newspapers have been published in the Indian languages. Altogether the literature of these languages and that relating to them are of vast extent.
| Author | : John Wesley Powell |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2015-05-16 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781512239980 |
"Indian Linguistic Families Of America" from John Wesley Powell. Soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West (1834-1902).
| Author | : John Wesley Powell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1877 |
| Genre | : Indians |
| ISBN | : |
| 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 | : 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.
