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Book The Languages of Native North America

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.

Book Alaska Native Languages

Download or read book Alaska Native Languages written by Michael E. Krauss and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Noun Classes and Categorization

Download or read book Noun Classes and Categorization written by Colette Grinevald Craig and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this conception has been challenged in different fields. By now prototype theory has established itself as one of the main approaches in linguistics. This volume brings classifier systems to the attention of cognitive psychologists dealing with the phenomenon of human categorization. For the general linguist it shows what can be learned from classifier systems into any theory on the nature of language organization, it will challenge some of the most entrenched notions in the field of linguistics, notions of what language is made of and how it functions.

Book Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Download or read book Indigenous Languages of the Americas written by Robert Singerman and published by Native American Bibliography. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cites without annotation over 1,600 dissertations and master's thesis from US, Canadian, and British institutions that cover the languages of tribal groups in the entire western hemisphere. Notes any publication as well as the full title, institution, date, and often reference number. Arranged by language family. A general sections includes works on such subjects as personal names, loan words, and sign language. Indexed by author, language, dialect, and tribe. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Guide to Departments of Anthropology

Download or read book Guide to Departments of Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Languages of Canada

Download or read book The Languages of Canada written by J. K. Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Indian and Eskimo languages, Canadian French, Canadian English plus other minority languages. Includes information on speaker population, geographical boundaries, general grammatical structure as well as citing studies on a particular language.

Book North American Indians

Download or read book North American Indians written by University Microfilms International and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadiana

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Download or read book Canadiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Book Comprehensive Dissertation Index  1861 1972  Language and literature

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index 1861 1972 Language and literature written by Xerox University Microfilms and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Linguistics

Download or read book General Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subarctic Athapaskan Bibliography

Download or read book Subarctic Athapaskan Bibliography written by June Helm and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3900 entries (through June 1984) on the ethnology, linguistics, prehistory, and human biology of the Athapaskan speaking (Dene) Indians of Canada and Alaska and the Metis of the Canadian subarctic. Incorporates and replaces the 1973 edition.

Book Ethnographic Bibliography of North America

Download or read book Ethnographic Bibliography of North America written by George Peter Murdock and published by New Haven : Human Relations Area Files Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 15,000 entries dealing with ethnography, history, psychology, human biology and medicine of native peoples of North America. Includes published materials issued before and during 1972.

Book Comprehensive Dissertation Index

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sarcee Grammar

Download or read book A Sarcee Grammar written by Eung-Do Cook and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Likely to become one of the classic works in Amerindian linguistics, this book presents a comprehensive grammar of Sarcee, an Athapaskan language spoken in southern Alberta. Based on the voluminous notes collected by Edward Sapir in 1922 and supplemented by extensive data from Cook's own work with the few remaining speakers of Sarcee, the book not only deals with all major areas of linguistic structure but also offers insights into linguistic changes which have occurred during this century. Primarily descriptive, with numerous examples drawn from text materials to support claims about grammatical structure or rule, the book also contains many accounts of Sarcee and Athapaskan data which bear significantly on current theoretical issues. Although the over-all approach is generative transformational, the material is presented in contemporary analytical and descriptive terminology. Preceded by an introduction defining the orthographic conventions and abbreviations used throughout the book, the following chapters are devoted to a thorough discussion of syntax, phonology, and morphology. The chapters on syntax constitute the only in-depth presentation of such material for any northern Athapaskan language. A major documentation of the geographically and linguistically important Sarcee language, this book will be welcomed by scholars in Athapaskan studies as well as by linguists in general as a significant contribution to the general knowledge of language and linguistic theory.