Author: Edward SapirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Native Accounts of Nootka Ethnography. (Publication One of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics.) Eng. & Nootka
Author: Edward SapirNative Accounts of Nootka Ethnography
Author: Edward SapirPublisher: New York : AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Native Accounts of Nootka Ethnography
Author: Eeva Kangasmaa MinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mari language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publication ... of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics
Author: The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
Author: Carmen DagostinoPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110712741
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
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 Languages of Native North America
Author: Marianne MithunPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521298759
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
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.
A Story as Sharp as a Knife
Author: Robert BringhurstPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History: 57.1(6)3-57.1,113
Author: American Museum of Natural History. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Author: