The Syntax Of Native American Languages
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| 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 | : Eung-Do Cook |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2020-01-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004373128 |
| 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 | : Janine Scancarelli |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780803242357 |
"Contributing linguists draw on their latest fieldwork and research, starting with a background chapter on the history of research on the Native languages of the Southeast. Eight chapters each provide an overview and grammatical sketch of a language, basing discussion on a narrative text presented at the beginning of the chapter. Special emphasis is given to both the fundamental grammatical characteristics of the language - its phonology, morphology, syntax, and various discourse features - and those sociolinguistic and cultural factors that affect its structure and use. Two additional chapters explore the various Muskogean languages (Creek, Alabama, Choctaw, Chickasaw), the only language family confined entirely to the Southeast.".
| Author | : Daniel Siddiqi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 839 |
| Release | : 2019-09-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 135181026X |
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.
| Author | : Rik van Gijn |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027206783 |
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| Author | : Leonard M. Faltz |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780826319029 |
For the first time, students and scholars interested in the Navajo language have a book that presents the verb system in a step-by-step and thorough fashion. By providing easy-to-follow descriptions with abundant examples, this book unravels the complexity of Navajo and reveals its expressiveness.
| Author | : James N. Stanford |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027218641 |
Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
| Author | : Raymond Hickey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1687 |
| Release | : 2017-04-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316839451 |
Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.
| Author | : Bel Abbey |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 674 |
| Release | : 1991-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780803227255 |
An American Indian language belonging to the Muskogean linguistic family, Koasati is spoken today by fewer than five hundred people living in southwestern Louisiana and on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Texas. Geoffrey D. Kimball has collected material from the speakers of the larger Louisiana community to produce the first comprehensive description of Koasati. The book opens with a brief history of the Koasati. The chapters that follow describe Koasati phonology, verb conjugation classes and inflectional morphology, verb derivation, noun inflectional and derivational morphology, grammatical particles, and syntax and semantics. A discussion of Koasati speech styles illustrated with texts concludes the book. Because examples of grammatical construction are drawn from native speakers in naturally occurring discourse, they authoritatively document aspects of a language that is little known.
