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A Grammar of Southern Pomo
Author | : Neil Alexander Walker |
Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496218914 |
A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people’s staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
A Grammar of Southern Pomo
Author | : Neil Alexander Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781303053092 |
Southern Pomo is a moribund indigenous language, one of seven closely related Pomoan languages once spoken in Northern California in the vicinity of the Russian River drainage, Clear Lake, and the adjacent Pacific coast. This work is the first full-length grammar of the language. It is divided into three parts. Part I introduces the sociocultural situation. This section introduces the material culture and physical environment of Southern Pomo speakers and the violent upheavals which destroyed their world. It also introduces the data sources on which this grammar is based. Part II is a detailed structural overiew of Southern Pomo. It introduces the sound inventory of the language and delves into its phonological alternations. It also introduces the different word classes together with a morpheme-by-moprheme inventory of the affixes and clitics with which the word classes are associated. Part III covers the sentence structure of Southern Pomo. It describes the different clauses and clause combining strategies present in the language, including the robust switch-reference system. This section also discusses the agent/patient case system and other clause-level phenomena.
American Indian Languages
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2000-09-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195349830 |
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.
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 Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0197673465 |
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.
Pomo Tribe
Author | : Source Wikipedia |
Publisher | : University-Press.org |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230595894 |
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Eastern Pomo language, Pomo people, Kashaya language, Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, Lytton Band of Pomo Indians, Pomoan languages, Graton Rancheria, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Chuck Billy, Bloody Island Massacre, Pomo religion, Kuksu, Elsie Allen, Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, Mabel McKay, Pomo traditional narratives, Redwood Valley Rancheria, Pinoleville Pomo Nation, Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California, Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria, Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria, Greg Sarris, Guidiville Rancheria of California, Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria, Coyote Valley Reservation, Potter Valley Tribe, Big Valley Rancheria, Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California, Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California, Northern Pomo language, Essie Pinola Parrish, Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California, Twin Pine Casino, Central Pomo language. Excerpt: Eastern Pomo (also Clear Lake Pomo or Elem Pomo) is a moribund Pomoan language, spoken around Clear Lake in Lake County, California by one of the several Pomo peoples. It is not mutually intelligible with the other Pomoan languages. Prior to contact with Europeans, it was spoken along the northern and southern shores of Clear Lake to the north of San Francisco, and in the coast mountains west of Sacramento Valley. Eastern Pomo shared borders in the north with the Patwin and the Yuki languages, in the south with the Lake Wappo, the Wappo, the Southeastern Pomo, the Southern Pomo, the Central Pomo, the Northern Pomo, and the Lake Miwok. They also shared a border to the west with the Northern Pomo. The southern and...
Atlas of the World's Languages
Author | : R.E. Asher |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1009 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1317851080 |
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author | : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1596 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1624 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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