Author: Robert Fleming HeizerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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California Indian Linguistic Records
Author: Robert Fleming HeizerCalifornia Indian Linguistic Records. The Mission Indian Vocabularies of Alphonse Pinart. Edited by R.F. Heizer
Author: Alphonse Louis PINARTCalifornia Indian Languages
Author: Victor GollaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520266676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
"Victor Golla has been the leading scholar of California Indian languages for most of his professional life, and this book shows why. His ability to synthesize centuries of fieldwork and writings while bringing forward new ideas and fresh ways of looking at California’s famous linguistic diversity will make this the primary text for anyone interested in California languages."--Leanne Hinton, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley and author of How to Keep Your Language Alive “This book is a wonderful contribution that only Golla could have written. It is a perfect confluence of author and subject matter.”--Ives Goddard, Senior Linguist, Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution "Golla is a gifted polymath and California Indian Languages is certainly his landmark achievement, required reading for any linguist, archaeologist, ethnographer, or historian interested in aboriginal California."--Robert L. Bettinger, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Davis and author of Hunter-Gatherer Foraging "The preeminent figure in his field, Victor Golla has written a masterpiece filled with treasures for every audience: Indian communities working toward cultural and linguistic revival; general readers interested in the many cultures of Native California; and scholars in the fields of language, archaeology, and prehistory. The information here is so detailed that it supersedes all previous reference works."--Andrew Garrett, Professor of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley and Director, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages “This is a truly magnificent work, at once authoritative, comprehensive, accessible to a wide readership, and fascinating. Masterfully integrating linguistic, archaeological, historical, and cultural information, the author describes not just the languages, but also the major figures in the story: speakers, explorers, missionaries, and scholars. It is beautifully written, a great pleasure to read, and difficult to put down."--Marianne Mithun, author of The Languages of Native North America
California Indian Linguistic Records. (1.)
Author: R. F. HeizerCalifornia Indian Languages
Author: Victor GollaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520389670
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
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.
California Indian Linguistic Records
Author: Robert Fleming HeizerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
California Indian Linguistic Records, the Mission Indian Vocabularies of H. W. Henshaw. Edited... by R. F. Heizer
Author: H. W. HenshawCalifornia Indian Linguistic Records
Author: Robert HeizerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781555671419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
California Indian Linguistic Records
Author: Henry Wetherbee HenshawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chumash Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Author: Henry Wetherbee Henshaw