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Dictionary for language spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and at the southeastern tip of the Chukchi Peninsula in the USSR. Includes English to Yupik index.
Author : Linda Womkon Badten
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1987
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781555000295
Dictionary for language spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and at the southeastern tip of the Chukchi Peninsula in the USSR. Includes English to Yupik index.
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,42 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.
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Publisher : Alaska Native Language Center
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialects. Over these decades, Jacobson has combed through records of explorers, linguists, missionaries, and anyone who has come in contact with the actively migratory Yup'ik people. Combined with information from native Yup'ik speakers, that research has led to a richly detailed dictionary that covers the entire language and all its dialects. The dictionary also offers sections on Yup'ik spelling, early vocabulary, demonstrative words, and important intersections of Yup'ik language and culture such as the kayak, dogsled, parka, and old-style dwellings.
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 9783110124217
Author : Russell Tabbert
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
This is a preliminary report of those words which are "Alaskanisms", i.e. unique to or highly characteristic of English as used in Alaska. The listings are arranged by subject, with extensive examples of use in Alaskan writing, with an alphabetical index to words and a guide to Alaskan usage. Includes many words from native languages and Russian, as well as place and regional names.
Author : Elizaveta Alikhanovna Dobrieva
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781555000851
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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1602232334
"Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuni ""it/Inupiaq to English Dictionary, "with approximately 19,000 entries (word stems, suffixes, and endings) and thirty-one appendices, is a rich cultural and linguistic resource of the Inupiaq language, the ancestral language of approximately five thousand Inupiat who live in eight villages on the North Slope of Alaska. Inupiaq word stems, suffixes, and endings can combine to form thousands of combinations, and each entry has an English translation. Many entries contain a verbal illustration in Inupiaq also translated into English. Every entry contains a morpheme by morpheme analysis. Of the dictionary s thirty-one appendices, twenty-four contain lists of terms from different categories, including: kin terms, ice and snow terms, temporal terms, names of constellations, ocean currents, and winds, area references, spatial terms, an explanation of the Inupiat counting system (also a list of cardinal and ordinal numbers), Inupiaq personal names, names of plants and animals (including mammals, insects, birds, fish, molluscs, and crustaceans), a list of exclamations, and names of the seasons/months. The other seven appendices are illustrations of an umiak, a kayak, a bowhead whale, a human skull, a human skeleton, and a traditional sod house. The various parts of each item are identified and named. "
Author : Louis-Jacques Dorais
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773581766
The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers.
Author : Ernst Hakon Jahr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110813300
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 : Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
A grammer of the Yupik or Yuit language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and in Siberia, designed for teaching both speakers and non-speakers.