Author : Richard T. Parr
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1772821764
This bibliography brings together the relevant materials in linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, folklore, and ethnomusicology for the Athapaskan languages. It consists of approximately 5,000 entries, of which one-fourth have been annotated, as well as maps and census illustrations.
Author : Richard T. Parr
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Athapascan Indians
ISBN :
Approximately 5000 entries on the linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, folklore and ethnomusicology of the Athapaskan Indian languages. Covers published materials, theses, dissertations, and archive holdings.
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521298759
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 : June Helm
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Athapascan Indians
ISBN :
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.
Author : William Bright
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780810815476
A comprehensive, annotated listing of over a thousand books, monographs, and articles containing substantive information on all the American Indian languages of California and closely related languages outside its boundaries. Important book reviews are included, as are unpublished theses and dissertations. The main listing is by author, with cross-references for co-author. A single index, which refers back to the main listing by item numbers, lists general works; names of dialects, languages, and language families; and miscellaneous topics.
Author : John C. Rath
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822302
This book contains a listing of approximately 2,650 roots from the various North Waskashan lanugages, namely Heiltsuk (Bella Bella and Klemtu), Oowekyala (Rivers Inlet), Haisla (Kitimat) and Kwakwala (Alert Bay, Port Hardy, etc.). Each root is illustrated with lexical words from the language where it is represented, cognate words being brought together under a single entry and cross-referenced to each other as they occur at different points in the alphabetical order. The root list is preceded by concise phonologies of each language and an exposition of the techniques used to isolate roots in North Wakashan.
Author : Roger Gilstrap
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1772822078
The author compares and contrasts the lexicon, phonology, and grammar of dialects spoken in five northwestern Quebec Algonquin communities. Isoglosses of contrasting features are provided in addition to an appendix of supplementary information.
Author : David McC. Grubb
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772821977
The author outlines a practical orthography for Kwakw’ala, the language spoken by the Kwagulh (Kwakiutl), of coastal British Columbia. In the first section he describes its use with a progression from the most familiar phonemes and symbols to the least while the second offers a functional exemplification in the form of cross-indexed Kwakw’ala-English (approximately 4,000 entries) and English-Kwakw’ala (about 12,000 entries) dictionaries.
Author : Margaret Berlin Blackman
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822353
A description of Northern and Kaigani Haida culture change as understood from a study of over two hundred late nineteenth-century photographs and relevant documentary evidence and ethnographic data.
Author : Robert Witmer
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1772822493
A historical and ethnographic study of the dynamic musical traditions of the Blood Indians of southwestern Alberta with particular emphasis on the influence and adaptation of Euro-American culture.
