The Dhegiha Language

Author : James Owen Dorsey,Francis La Flèche
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019397195

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The Dhegiha Language by James Owen Dorsey,Francis La Flèche Pdf

Learn about the rich linguistic heritage of the Osage, Omaha, Kaw, and Quapaw tribes with Francis La Flèche and James Owen Dorsey's The Dhegiha Language. Assembled from historical records, this in-depth study of the Dhegiha dialect explores its grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Owen Dorsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Dhegiha language
ISBN : OCLC:743242809

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The Dhegiha Language by James Owen Dorsey Pdf

Author : James Owen Dorsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Dhegiha language
ISBN : OCLC:1434417631

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The Dhegiha Language by James Owen Dorsey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004406285

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Siouan Languages and Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Robert L. Rankin was a seminal figure in late 20th and early 21st centuries in the field of Siouan linguistics. His knowledge, like the papers he produced, was voluminous. We have gathered here a representation of his work that spans over thirty years. The papers presented here focus on both the languages Rankin studied in depth (Quapaw, Kansa, Biloxi, Ofo, and Tutelo) and comparative historical work on the Siouan language family in general. While many of the papers included have been previously published, one third of them have never before been made public including a grammatical sketch and dictionary of Ofo and his final paper on the place of Mandan in the larger Siouan family.

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780197673461

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The Indigenous Languages of the Americas by Lyle Campbell Pdf

The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.

Author : George E. Lankford,F. Kent Reilly,James F. Garber
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292768086

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Visualizing the Sacred by George E. Lankford,F. Kent Reilly,James F. Garber Pdf

The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography, which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the Mississippian peoples. Visualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.

Author : Catherine Rudin, Bryan James Gordon
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234371

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Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics by Catherine Rudin, Bryan James Gordon Pdf

The Siouan family comprises some twenty languages, historically spoken across a broad swath of the central North American plains and woodlands, as well as in parts of the southeastern United States. In spite of its geographical extent and diversity, and the size and importance of several Siouan-speaking tribes, this family has received relatively little attention in the linguistic literature and many of the individual Siouan languages are severely understudied. This volume aims to make work on Siouan languages more broadly available and to encourage deeper investigation of the myriad typological, theoretical, descriptive, and pedagogical issues they raise. The 17 chapters in this volume present a broad range of current Siouan research, focusing on various Siouan languages, from a variety of linguistic perspectives: historical-genetic, philological, applied, descriptive, formal/generative, and comparative/typological. The editors' preface summarizes characteristic features of the Siouan family, including head-final and "verb-centered" syntax, a complex system of verbal affixes including applicatives and subject-possessives, head-internal relative clauses, gendered speech markers, stop-systems including ejectives, and a preference for certain prosodic and phonotactic patterns. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert L. Rankin, a towering figure in Siouan linguistics throughout his long career, who passed away in February of 2014.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080877754

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Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World by Anonim Pdf

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world’s major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution. Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world’s languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. * Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and disputes * Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics * Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose * Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage * Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia

Author : Jean Dennison
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469676982

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Vital Relations by Jean Dennison Pdf

Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations' governance. Focusing on the unique history and context of Osage nation building efforts, this insightful ethnography provides a deeper vision of the struggles Native nation leaders are currently facing. Exploring the Osage philosophy of moving to a new country as a framework for relational governance, Jean Dennison shows that for the Osage, nation building is an ongoing process of reworking colonial constraints to serve the nation's own ends. As Dennison argues, Osage officials have undertaken deliberate changes to strengthen Osage relations to their language, self-governance, health, and land—core needs for a people to thrive now and into the future. Scholars and future Indigenous leaders can learn from the Osage Nation's past challenges, strategies, and ongoing commitments to better enact the difficult work of Indigenous nation building.

Author : Janine Scancarelli,Heather Kay Hardy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0803242352

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Native Languages of the Southeastern United States by Janine Scancarelli,Heather Kay Hardy Pdf

"Contributing linguists draw on their latest fieldwork and research, starting with a background chapter on the history of research on the Native languages of the Southeast. Eight chapters each provide an overview and grammatical sketch of a language, basing discussion on a narrative text presented at the beginning of the chapter. Special emphasis is given to both the fundamental grammatical characteristics of the language - its phonology, morphology, syntax, and various discourse features - and those sociolinguistic and cultural factors that affect its structure and use. Two additional chapters explore the various Muskogean languages (Creek, Alabama, Choctaw, Chickasaw), the only language family confined entirely to the Southeast.".

Author : John Staller,Robert Tykot,Bruce Benz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1129 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315427317

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Histories of Maize by John Staller,Robert Tykot,Bruce Benz Pdf

Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnographic research on the uses and roles of maize in indigenous cultures and a linguistic section that includes chapters on indigenous folk taxonomies and the role and meaning of maize to the development of civilization. Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary information unavailable elsewhere.

Author : David H. Dye,Cheryl Anne Cox
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817304553

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Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi by David H. Dye,Cheryl Anne Cox Pdf

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The scholars' overriding concerns include presentation of a scientifically accurate depiction of the native cultures in the Central Mississippi Valley prior and immediately subsequent to European contact and the need to document the ensuing social and biological changes that eventually led to the widespread depopulation and cultural reorientation. Their findings lead to three basic hypotheses that will focus the scholarly research for decades to come. Contributors include: George J. Armelagos, Ian W. Brown, Chester B. DePratter, George F. Fielder, Jr., James B. Griffin, M. Cassandra Hill, Michael P. Hoffman, Charles Hudson, R. Barry Lewis, Dan F. Morse, Phyllis A. Morse, Mary Lucas Powell, Cynthia R. Price, James F. Price, Gerald P. Smith, Marvin T. Smith, and Stephen Williams

Author : William Shipley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110852387

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In Honor of Mary Haas by William Shipley Pdf

In honor of Mary Haas : from the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics.

Author : Joseph Evans Grimes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Computers
ISBN : 902793164X

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The Thread of Discourse by Joseph Evans Grimes Pdf

Author : Carol Diaz-Granados
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9798888570432

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Explanations in Iconography by Carol Diaz-Granados Pdf

Case studies combine archaeological data and oral tradition to illustrate how the archaeological expression of beliefs and meanings passed down in the oral tradition may be interpreted. Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning is a significant contribution to the field of archaeology – a contribution in iconography studies that has gradually been coming into its own. Iconography is a rich and fascinating field, as applied to the complex, and heretofore enigmatic, imagery on many ancient Pre-Columbian artifacts. When viewed through the lens of early ethnographic records and American Indian oral traditions, as well as information from knowledgeable American Indian elders, it opens a world of understanding and clarity until recently unknown in the field of anthropological archaeology. It brings us closer to the people who created the artifacts and offers a glimpse into the symbols and beliefs that were important to them. Chapters cover a wide variety of artifacts and imagery from several ancient American Indian cultures. These artifacts include petroglyphs and pictographs (rock art), mounds, engraved shell cups and gorgets, burial architecture and grave furniture, pottery, copper repoussé, and other media. Ancient graphics, engravings, mounds, and all were created to deliver a message to the viewer – and many of those messages are finally coming to light. The artifacts included are from a variety of regions, mainly in the Midwest and Eastern United States. We hope that this volume will encourage others to look more deeply into the meaning behind the ancient imagery and arts and give the past a chance to be known.