Author: Mile Petitot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108049796
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The first dictionary and analysis of an extremely complex Inuit dialect, published in 1876 by a French missionary.
Vocabulaire français-esquimau
Author: Emile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph Petitot
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Languages : fr
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The Languages of Native North America
Author: Marianne Mithun
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Indian Tribes of North America
Author: John Reed Swanton
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
This is the definitive one-volume guide to the Indian tribes of North America, and it covers all groupings such as nations, confederations, tribes, subtribes, clans, and bands. It is a digest of all Indian groups and their historical locations throughout the continent. Formatted as a dictionary, or gazetteer, and organized by state, it includes all known tribal groupings within the state and the many villages where they were located. Using the year 1650 to determine the general location of most of the tribes, Swanton has drawn four over-sized fold-out maps, each depicting a different quadrant of North America and the location of the various tribes therein, including not only the tribes of the United States, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Central America, but the Caribbean islands as well. According to the author, the gazetteer and the maps are "intended to inform the general reader what Indian tribes occupied the territory of his State and to add enough data to indicate the place they occupied among the tribal groups of the continent and the part they played in the early period of our history. . . ." Accordingly, the bulk of the text includes such facts as the origin of the tribal name and a brief list of the more important synonyms; the linguistic connections of the tribe; its location; a brief sketch of its history; its population at different periods; and the extent to which its name has been perpetuated geographically.--From publisher description.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
This is the definitive one-volume guide to the Indian tribes of North America, and it covers all groupings such as nations, confederations, tribes, subtribes, clans, and bands. It is a digest of all Indian groups and their historical locations throughout the continent. Formatted as a dictionary, or gazetteer, and organized by state, it includes all known tribal groupings within the state and the many villages where they were located. Using the year 1650 to determine the general location of most of the tribes, Swanton has drawn four over-sized fold-out maps, each depicting a different quadrant of North America and the location of the various tribes therein, including not only the tribes of the United States, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Central America, but the Caribbean islands as well. According to the author, the gazetteer and the maps are "intended to inform the general reader what Indian tribes occupied the territory of his State and to add enough data to indicate the place they occupied among the tribal groups of the continent and the part they played in the early period of our history. . . ." Accordingly, the bulk of the text includes such facts as the origin of the tribal name and a brief list of the more important synonyms; the linguistic connections of the tribe; its location; a brief sketch of its history; its population at different periods; and the extent to which its name has been perpetuated geographically.--From publisher description.
An Anthropogeographical Study of the Origin of the Eskimo Culture
Author: Hans Peder Steensby
Publisher: København : Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher: København : Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri
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Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The Ammassalik Eskimo
Author: William Thalbitzer
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Category : Ammassalik (Greenland : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Category : Ammassalik (Greenland : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Ammassalik Eskimo: The ethnological and anthropological results of G. Holm's Expedition in 1883-85 and G. Amdrup's Expedition in 1898-1900 as presented in various papers by G. Holm, Søren Hansen, H. Rink, J. Hansen (Hansêrak) Johan Petersen and William Thalbitzer
Author: William Thalbitzer
Publisher:
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Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary
Author: Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher: Alaska Native Language Center
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Related words from the modern Eskimo languages are grouped together in comparative sets with English equivalents. Ten linguistic varieties are compared, including five Inuit dialect groups, the four Yupik languages, and Sirenikski. Separate sections are devoted to derivational suffixes, inflectional endings, and demonstratives. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Alaska Native Language Center
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Related words from the modern Eskimo languages are grouped together in comparative sets with English equivalents. Ten linguistic varieties are compared, including five Inuit dialect groups, the four Yupik languages, and Sirenikski. Separate sections are devoted to derivational suffixes, inflectional endings, and demonstratives. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Meddelelser Om Grønland
The American Nation, a History: Farrand, L. Basis of American history, 1500-1900
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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