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Author : Alice Shepherd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520097483
Author : Victor Golla
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780520389670
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
Author : Jane H. Hill,P. J. Mistry,Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110811155
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : R.E. Asher,Christopher Moseley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317851080
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author : Herbert W. Luthin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520935365
This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts in their respective languages, and their introductions to each selection provide welcome cultural and biographical context. Augmenting and enhancing the book are Luthin's engaging, informative essays on topics that range from California's Native languages and oral-literary traditions to critical issues in performance, translation, and the history of California literary ethnography.
Author : Jon Philip Dayley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520097521
This introductory descriptive grammar of T�mpisa (Panamint) Shoshone, a central Numic language in the Uto-Aztecan family, presents the most important grammatical elements and processes in the language, with regard to verb, noun, adjective and adverbial phrases, simple sentence constructions, coordination and sub- ordination, and phonology. Several texts and a basic vocabulary list are provided.
Author : Xiao-nan Susan Shen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520097505
Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to interrogative; therefore, two baselines and two intonation layers must be reckoned with. Sentence intonation affects the tonal values and the tonal shapes of intrinsic lexical tones, though not beyond recognition. Tonal changes prove to be closely related to sentence intonation, which is superimposed simultaneously onto the utterance as a whole. The author's findings support the position of the movability of the intonation baseline and rectify some widely spread traditional claims concerning Mandarin Chinese prosody.
Author : Lauri Honko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110825848
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Victor Golla,Sean O'Neill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110879803
This volume contains Sapir's full edition of Hupa texts, with complete linguistic and textual annotations. The texts are accompanied by an analytic lexicon - a complete inventory of all stems and derivational bases contained in the corpus - and a detailed ethnographic glossary.
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 052129875X
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.
Author : Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker,Diane M. Hintz,Carmen Jany
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267337
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.
Author : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245564
Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and "revolutionary" challenges to traditions within North American linguistics, especially within 20th-century anthropological linguistics. After showing substantial differences between Bloomfield's and neo-Bloomfieldian theorizing, Murray shows that early transformational-generative work on syntax grew out of neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism, and was promoted by neo-Bloomfieldian gatekeepers, in particular longtime Language editor Bernard Bloch. The central case studies of the book contrast the (increasingly) "revolutionary rhetoric" of transformational-generative grammarians with rhetorics of continuity emitted by two linguistic anthropology groupings that began simultaneously with TGG in the late-1950s, the ethnography of communication and ethnoscience.
Author : Jon Philip Dayley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520097548
Author : Robert Bringhurst
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553658399
A seminal collection of Haida myths and legends; now in a gorgeous new package. The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. Together they created a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Having worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, linguist and poet Robert Bringhurst brings both rigorous scholarship and a literary voice to the English translation of John Swanton's careful work. He sets the stories in a rich context that reaches out to dozens of native oral literatures and to myth-telling traditions around the globe. Attractively redesigned, this collection of First Nations oral literature is an important cultural record for future generations of Haida, scholars and other interested readers. It won the Edward Sapir Prize, awarded by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, and it was chosen as the Literary Editor's Book of the Year by the Times of London. Bringhurst brings these works to life in the English language and sets them in a context just as rich as the stories themselves one that reaches out to dozens of Native American oral literatures, and to mythtelling traditions around the world.
Author : Grace McKibbin,Alice Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000056764842
Presenting the only bilingual collection of the songs, stories, and traditional tales of the Wintu.