The Wiyot Language
Author | : Karl V. Teeter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Wiyot language |
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Author | : Karl V. Teeter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Wiyot language |
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Author | : Gladys Amanda Reichard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karl V. Teeter |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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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 | : Alfred Louis Kroeber |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karl V. Teeter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Talbot Waterman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Victor Golla |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0520389670 |
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.