Author: Margaret LangdonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110887835
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Comparative Hokan-Coahuiltecan Studies
Author: Margaret LangdonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110887835
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Chimariko Grammar
Author: Carmen JanyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520098757
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.
The Languages of Native America
Author: Lyle CampbellPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292768524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1041
Book Description
These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows: Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective" Ives Goddard, "Comparative Algonquian" Marianne Mithun, "Iroquoian" Wallace L. Chafe, "Caddoan" David S. Rood, "Siouan" Mary R. Haas, "Southeastern Languages" James M. Crawford, "Timucua and Yuchi: Two Language Isolates of the Southeast" Ives Goddard, "The Languages of South Texas and the Lower Rio Grande" Irvine Davis, "The Kiowa-Tanoan, Keresan, and Zuni Languages" Susan Steele, "Uto-Aztecan: An Assessment for Historical and Comparative Linguistics" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Hokan lnter-Branch Comparisons" Margaret Langdon, "Some Thoughts on Hokan with Particular Reference to Pomoan and Yuman" Michael Silverstein, ''Penutian: An Assessment" Laurence C. Thompson, "Salishan and the Northwest" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Wakashan Comparative Studies" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Chimakuan Comparative Studies" Michael E. Krauss, "Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut" Lyle CampbelI, "Middle American Languages" Eric S. Hamp, "A Glance from Now On."
Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
Author: Charles N. LiPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477301054
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twentieth century have linguists begun to focus their interest and research on the area of syntactic change and the insight it provides on the nature of language. This volume represents the first major contribution on the mechanisms of syntactic change. The fourteen articles that make up this volume were selected from the Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976, one of a series of three conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation. These papers clearly demonstrate that the generative approach to the study of language does not explain diachronic processes in syntax. This collection is enlightening, provocative, and carefully documented with data drawn from a great variety of language families.
Rolling in Ditches with Shamans
Author: Wendy Leeds-HurwitzPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803229542
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime de Angulo (1887?1950). Although he earned a medical degree, de Angulo chose to live on an isolated ranch in Big Sur, California, where he participated fully in the lives of the people who were his ethnographic informants. The period of his most extensive research coincides almost perfectly with the professionalization of anthropology, and de Angulo provides a link between those who are generally recognized as the most important figures of the day: Franz Boas, Alfred Kroeber, and Edward Sapir. ΓΈ The fields of salvage ethnography and linguistics, which Boas emphasized, were aimed at recording the culture, language, and myths of the Native groups before they became completely acculturated. In keeping with these dictates, de Angulo recorded data from thirty groups, mostly in California, which otherwise might have been lost. In an unusual move for that time, he also wrote fiction and poetry describing the modern lives of the people he studied, something of little interest to Boas but of great interest today. His most enduring work is Indian Tales, a fictional synthesis of myths learned from various California Indians. De Angulo?s range of interests, originality, and expertise exemplified the curiosity and brilliance of those who pioneered American anthropology at this time.
Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship
Author: Hans Henrich HockPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311061328X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on the regularity of sound change and its importance for general historical-comparative linguistics. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.
A Cultural Resource Overview of the Eureka, Saline, Panamint, and Darwin Region, East Central California
Author: Richard H. NorwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Ibss: Anthropology: 1975
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and DocumentationPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780422762502
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Hokan Studies
Author: Margaret LangdonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110819112
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
American Indian Languages
Author: Lyle CampbellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195140508
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.