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Author | : Sandra A. Thompson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2006-06-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520916107 |
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Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based on the speech of Laura Fish Somersal, its last fluent speaker, who died in 1990, and represents the most extensive data and grammatical research ever done on this language. The grammar focuses on morphosyntax, particularly nominal, verbal, and clausal structures and clause combining patterns, from a functional/typological perspective.
Author | : Paul Radin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781436684118 |
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Paul Radin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1988-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780527013837 |
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Author | : Paul Radin |
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Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Author | : Martine Vanhove |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3050057696 |
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This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.
Author | : Jane H. Hill |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0520246373 |
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In one of the most thorough studies ever prepared of a California language, Hill’s grammar reviews the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse features of Cupeño, a Uto-Aztecan (takic) language of California. Cupeño exhibits many unusual typological features, including split ergativity, that require linguists to revise our understanding of the development of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages in historical and areal perspective.
Author | : Shirley Silver |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816521395 |
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This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
Author | : Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027267332 |
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This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially with regard to contact phenomena in languages of North America, Meso-America and South America. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics, including sound change, morphosyntactic change, lexical semantics, grammaticalization, language endangerment, and discourse-pragmatic change. With chapters from distinguished scholars and talented newcomers alike, this book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in internally- and externally-motivated language change.
Author | : Carmen Jany |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520945190 |
Download Chimariko Grammar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Uldis Balodis |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520965698 |
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The Yuki language, including Huchnom and Coast Yuki, was spoken in Mendocino County until relatively recently (the last speaker died in 1983). This grammar is based primarily on spoken narratives recorded by Alfred Kroeber between 1901-1911. While Yuki was extensively documented over the course of the twentieth century, there is relatively little in the way of actual published works on the language. Balodis discusses the language within the historical and cultural context of the people who spoke it.