A GRAMMAR OF THE WAPPO LANGUAGE
Author | : PAUL RADIN |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Author | : PAUL RADIN |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Author | : Sandra A. Thompson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2006-05-06 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0520098544 |
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 | : 194 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Author | : Paul A. Radin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1920-11-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781555672751 |
Author | : Paul Radin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Neil Alexander Walker |
Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496217659 |
A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people’s staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
Author | : Marit Julien |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195149517 |
This title investigates the relationship between morphology and syntax. It examines the formation of morphologically complex words - that is, the mechanisms of grammar that may cause two or more of the simplest elements of language, or morphemes, to be combined into a single word.
Author | : Jesse O. Sawyer |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : California |
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Author | : Uldis Balodis |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520292197 |
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.Ê
Author | : Marianne Mithun |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2001-06-07 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521298759 |
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.