Cocopa Dictionary
| Author | : James Mack Crawford |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780520097490 |
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Cocopa Dictionary
| Author | : James Crawford |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2023-04-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0520398912 |
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This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
A Dictionary of the Osage Language
| Author | : Francis La Flesche |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 978 |
| Release | : 1932 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
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Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary
| Author | : Jon Philip Dayley |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780520097544 |
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California Indian Languages
| Author | : Victor Golla |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2022-02 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0520389670 |
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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the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the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.
The Languages of Native North America
| Author | : Marianne Mithun |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 800 |
| Release | : 2001-06-07 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521298759 |
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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.
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
| Author | : Cecil H. Brown |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1999-02-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0195352874 |
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Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.
Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar
| Author | : Jon Philip Dayley |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780520097520 |
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This introductory descriptive grammar of T�mpisa (Panamint) Shoshone, a central Numic language in the Uto-Aztecan family, presents the most important grammatical elements and processes in the language, with regard to verb, noun, adjective and adverbial phrases, simple sentence constructions, coordination and sub- ordination, and phonology. Several texts and a basic vocabulary list are provided.
Wintu Texts
| Author | : Alice Shepherd |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780520097483 |
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The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
| Author | : Xiao-nan Susan Shen |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 1990-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780520097506 |
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Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to interrogative; therefore, two baselines and two intonation layers must be reckoned with. Sentence intonation affects the tonal values and the tonal shapes of intrinsic lexical tones, though not beyond recognition. Tonal changes prove to be closely related to sentence intonation, which is superimposed simultaneously onto the utterance as a whole. The author's findings support the position of the movability of the intonation baseline and rectify some widely spread traditional claims concerning Mandarin Chinese prosody.
