Download or read book Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary written by James M. Kari and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of the Ahtna language, one of the Athabaskan languages, spoken in the Copper River area of southcentral Alaska, by less than 100 persons in a total population of about 1200 of Ahtna descent.

Download or read book Ahtna Language Workbook written by Mildred E. Buck and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Landscape in Language written by David M. Mark and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. -- Back cover.

Download or read book Lower Ahtna Language Lessons written by Cynthea L. Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary written by James M. Kari and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of the Ahtna language, one of the Athabaskan languages, spoken in the Copper River area of southcentral Alaska, by less than 100 persons in a total population of about 1200 of Ahtna descent.

Download or read book Mentasta Ahtna Language Lessons written by Katie John and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Languages of Native North America written by Marianne Mithun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Northern Athabaskan Languages written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Ahtna language, Babine-Witsuwit'en language, Carrier language, Chilcotin language, Chipewyan language, Danezaa language, Deg Xinag language, Dena'ina language, Dogrib language, Gwich'in language, Han language, Holikachuk language, Kaska language, Koyukon language, Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie language, Lower Tanana language, Nicola language, Sarcee language, Sekani language, Slavey language, Tagish language, Tahltan language, Tanacross language, Tanana languages, Tsetsaut language, Tutchone language, Upper Kuskokwim language, Upper Tanana language. Excerpt: The Carrier language is a Northern Athabaskan language. It is named after the Dakelh people, a First Nations people of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, for whom Carrier is the usual English name. People who are referred to as Carrier speak two related languages. One, Babine-Witsuwit'en is sometimes referred to as Northern Carrier. The other, Carrier proper, includes what are sometimes referred to as Central Carrier and Southern Carrier. All dialects of Carrier have essentially the same consonant system, which is shown in this chart. There are three series of stops and affricates: aspirated, unaspirated (written voiced in the practical orthography), and ejective. is not native to the language but has been introduced by loans from French and English. occurs in a single loanword "coffee." The labialized voiced velar fricative is found only in the speech of the most conservative speakers; for most speakers it has merged with . The palatal nasal occurs allophonically before other palatal consonants; otherwise, it occurs only in a small set of 2nd-person singular morphemes. For most speakers it has become an sequence, with a syllabic . Similarly, the velar nasal occurs allophonically before other velar consonants but is found distinctively in one or two...

Download or read book Athabaskan Verb Theme Categories written by James M. Kari and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chistochina Ahtna Language Lessons written by Lena Charley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language Contact and Change in the Americas written by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Ahtna Travel Narratives written by Jim McKinley and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise landscape classifications, including Ahtna place names and river directionals, these indigenous travel narratives represent walking tours comprising more than one thousand miles of traditional routes and trails in the Ahtna-language area. Providing context for these narratives are maps, photos, interviews, and a wealth of ethnographic, linguistic, historical, and methodological information.

Download or read book Headwaters People s Country written by James M. Kari and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1986 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 21 narratives focussing on stories about historical events and traditional territory. Also includes a small selection from the rich Upper Ahtna oral tradition.

Download or read book Cantwell Ahtna Language Lessons written by Jane Nicholas and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Athapaskan Linguistics written by Eung-Do Cook and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Athapaskan Linguistics".

Download or read book The Athabaskan Languages written by Theodore B. Fernald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators. The linguistic chapters in this volume focus on syntax and semantics, but also involve morphology, phonology, and historical linguistics. Included is a discussion of whether religion and secular issues can be separated in Navajo classrooms.

Download or read book Directional Reference Discourse and Landscape in Ahtna written by Andrea Lauren Berez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines one corner of the grammar of the Ahtna Athabaskan language of Alaska: the use and semantics of the lexical class of directionals. In particular, this dissertation looks at how Ahtna speakers use directionals in spontaneous discourse and elicitation against the backdrop of the physiography of Ahtna territory. The semantics of the directional system is traditionally riverine, meaning that the orientation of the local river local determines which directional term speakers choose. Talk about direction and location of referents in the natural landscape is common among Ahtna speakers: Ahtna people are traditionally seminomadic, and verbally displaying one's knowledge of overland travel through Ahtna territory has a special place in culture and society. Among the linguistic resources available for describing concepts like path and location are the directionals, the use of which is a direct reflection of a speaker's familiarity with the geography of the region he or she is describing. Awareness of the local ecology is thus not only central to Ahtna cultural practices, but also potentially influences the development of the grammar over time. This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between language change over time and the use of the directionals in discourse and elicitation. The first section examines the recent changes in the semantics and usage of the directionals because of language contact. Using data from my fieldwork, I show that the nearly constant contact of Ahtna with the dominant English language is causing a shift in the semantics of the directionals, such that they now refer less to the orientation of the local river, and more to the cardinal directions found in English. The second section looks at language change from a purely language-internal point of view. Using data from a previous generation of Ahtna speakers, it discusses how the complex morphology of directionals is lexicalizing over time, leading to a loss of semantic clarity that speakers are compensating for via other resources in the discourse structure. Central to the discussion is the topography of the landscape itself. To that end, geographic information systems technology plays a large role in the data presented here.