California Indian Languages

California Indian Languages
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 395
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ISBN-10 : 9780520389670
ISBN-13 : 0520389670
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Synopsis California Indian Languages by : Victor Golla

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the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the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.

A Grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec

A Grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0520098072
ISBN-13 : 9780520098077
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis A Grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec by : Monica Ann Macaulay

This is the first comprehensive grammar of any variety of Mixtec written for linguists. It provides theoretically informed (generative) description and analysis of the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical semantics of this dialect, situated in the broader context of Mixtecan and Otomanguean languages. Texts and a lexicon (Mixtec-English/English-Mixtec, 1,500 words) are included as well.

American Indian Languages

American Indian Languages
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 527
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ISBN-10 : 9780195349832
ISBN-13 : 0195349830
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis American Indian Languages by : Lyle Campbell

Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.

Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County

Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 0810833255
ISBN-13 : 9780810833258
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County by : Phillip M. White

Provides information on the Native American groups indigenous to the area that is now San Diego County. All aspects of history and culture are covered, including language and linguistics, arts, agriculture, hunting, religion, mythology, music, political and social structures, dwellings, clothing, and medicinal practices.

Copies Versus Cognates in Bound Morphology

Copies Versus Cognates in Bound Morphology
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 472
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ISBN-10 : 9789004224070
ISBN-13 : 9004224076
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Copies Versus Cognates in Bound Morphology by : Lars Johanson

Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced perspective. Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets provide nothing less than the foundations for a new perspective on diachronic linguistics between genealogical and areal linguistics.

Language and Mathematics

Language and Mathematics
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781501500367
ISBN-13 : 1501500368
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Language and Mathematics by : Marcel Danesi

This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, and other relevant theories, to show that language and mathematics have a similar structure, but differential functions, even though one without the other would not exist.

Tone and Inflection

Tone and Inflection
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9783110450361
ISBN-13 : 3110450364
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Tone and Inflection by : Enrique L. Palancar

Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both. The contributions to this volume study possible and sometimes complex ways in which the tones of a language engage in the expression of grammatical categories. There is a widespread conception that tone is a lexical phenomenon only. This is partly a consequence of the main interest in tone coming from phonology, while the main interest in inflection has stemmed from segmental morphology. Similarly, textbooks on inflection and textbooks on tone give very few examples of the inflectional use of tone, and such examples are often the same ones or too similar. This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the link between tone and inflection by showing that there is more to tone than meets the eye. The book includes general chapters as well as case studies on lesser known languages of Asia, Africa and Papua New Guinea, with a special focus on the Oto-Manguean languages, a large and diverse linguistic stock of Mexico that inspired Kenneth Pike’s 1948 seminal work on tone. Most of the contributions to this volume provide first-hand data from recent fieldwork that stems from important language documentation activities.