The Languages of Native North America

The Languages of Native North America
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 800
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ISBN-10 : 9781107392809
ISBN-13 : 1107392802
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Synopsis The Languages of Native North America by : Marianne Mithun

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 Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 769
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ISBN-10 : 9783110600926
ISBN-13 : 3110600927
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America by : Carmen Dagostino

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.

American Indian Languages

American Indian Languages
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 527
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195140507
ISBN-13 : 0195140508
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis American Indian Languages by : Lyle Campbell

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.

The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 1687
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781316839454
ISBN-13 : 1316839451
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics by : Raymond Hickey

Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.

The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages

The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 839
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351810265
ISBN-13 : 135181026X
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages by : Daniel Siddiqi

The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.

Language Planning and Policy in Native America

Language Planning and Policy in Native America
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Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Total Pages : 297
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781847698650
ISBN-13 : 1847698654
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Language Planning and Policy in Native America by : Teresa L. McCarty

Comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, this book explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples across time, space, and place. Based on long-term collaborative and ethnographic work with Native American communities and schools, the book examines the imposition of colonial language policies against the fluorescence of contemporary community-driven efforts to revitalize threatened mother tongues. Here, readers will meet those who are on the frontlines of Native American language revitalization every day. As their efforts show, even languages whose last native speaker is gone can be reclaimed through family-, community-, and school-based language planning. Offering a critical-theory view of language policy, and emphasizing Indigenous sovereignties and the perspectives of revitalizers themselves, the book shows how language regenesis is undertaken in social practice, the role of youth in language reclamation, the challenges posed by dominant language policies, and the prospects for Indigenous language and culture continuance current revitalization efforts hold.

California Indian Languages

California Indian Languages
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 395
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520266674
ISBN-13 : 0520266676
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis California Indian Languages by : Victor Golla

"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

Native Writings in Massachusett

Native Writings in Massachusett
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Total Pages : 580
Release :
ISBN-10 : 087169185X
ISBN-13 : 9780871691859
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Native Writings in Massachusett by : Ives Goddard

An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. The Indians speaking this language are those referred to as the Massachusetts, the Wampanoags (or Pokanokets), and the Nausets, who inhabited the region encompassing the immediate Boston area and the area east of Narragansett Bay, incl. Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Isl., Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Illus. with original documents. In two volumes.

The Barbarous Years

The Barbarous Years
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 642
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780375703461
ISBN-13 : 0375703462
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Barbarous Years by : Bernard Bailyn

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. In the early years, their stories are not mainly of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was a thoroughly brutal encounter—not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves, as they sought to control and prosper in the new configurations of life that were emerging around them.

The Languages of Native North America

The Languages of Native North America
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 800
Release :
ISBN-10 : 052129875X
ISBN-13 : 9780521298759
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis The Languages of Native North America by : Marianne Mithun

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.