Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America written by Carmen Dagostino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
Download or read book The Upper Tanana Dene written by William E. Simeone and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders. Oral accounts reveal a unique perspective and offer commentary on continuity and change over the past hundred years. These narratives, along with photographs and illustrations, show the history of the region alongside a portrait of the people themselves."--
Download or read book Endangered Metaphors written by Anna Idström and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of fifteen articles about metaphors in endangered languages, from Peru to Alaska, from India to Ghana. This title is suitable for researchers and students in linguistics, especially in metaphor and figurative language theory, and for scholars in large fields of cultural studies, ranging from anthropology to folkloristics and philosophy.
Download or read book Teedlay T iin Naholndak Niign written by Cora David and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teedlay T iin Naholndak Niign written by Cora David and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories in the Tetlin dialect of the Upper Tanana language and their English translations.
Download or read book The Ethnography of the Tanaina written by Cornelius Osgood and published by Human Relations Area Files. This book was released on 1966 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted from the 1937 edition.
Download or read book Dena ina Topical Dictionary written by James M. Kari and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a dictionary of the Dena'ina Athabascan language of Cook Inlet Basin and the Southern Alaska Range. Vocabulary lists arranged by topic provide a panoramic view of the central cultural and ecological concepts of the Dena'ina. In terms of breadth of subjects, technical specificity, dialect coverage, and illustrations, this is the most refined topical lexicon in existence for an Alaska Native language and for any language in the Athabascan family. More than one hundred Dena'ina speakers contributed words, and many chapters were reviewed by experts in natural history and ethnology. This work positions Dena'ina topical materials at the intersection of ethnology and linguistics.
Download or read book Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary written by Jules Jetté and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earth is My Mother Sky is My Father written by Trudy Griffin-Pierce and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.
Download or read book Tanacross Learners Dictionary written by Gary Holton and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary contains about 2000 English headwords with nearly 4500 Tanacross words and example sentences, as well as numerous examples of verb paradigms. The dictionary also includes a brief introduction to Tanacross grammar, as well as a guide to the Tanacross writing system.
Download or read book Sharing the Skies written by Nancy C. Maryboy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at traditional Navajo astronomy, including their constellations and the unique way in which Navajo people view the cosmos and their place within it.
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 Stars of the First People written by Dorcas S. Miller and published by Westwinds Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brief introduction to star lore in Native American beliefs and culture; describes and provides illustrations of classical Greek constellations; and features information about the cultures and star lore of various Native American tribes, organized by culture area.
Download or read book The Dene Yeniseian Connection written by James M. Kari and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A special joint publication of the UAF Department of Anthropology and the Alaska Native Language Center: Fairbanks, Alaska, 2011."
