Book Description
A Grammar of Upper Tanana is a comprehensive text that performs the impressive task of linguistically rendering a written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language.
Author : Olga Lovick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2023-02
Category : Upper Tanana language
ISBN : 1496231430
A Grammar of Upper Tanana is a comprehensive text that performs the impressive task of linguistically rendering a written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language.
Author : Olga Lovick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2023-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1496233689
A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 2 is part of a comprehensive two-volume text that linguistically renders a written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of the Upper Tanana language, volume 2 meticulously details a language that is currently spoken, with fluency, by approximately fifty people in limited parts of Alaska’s eastern interior and Canada’s Yukon Territory. As part of the Dene (Athabascan) language group, Upper Tanana embodies elements of both the Alaskan and Canadian subgroups of Northern Dene. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of any of the Alaskan Dene languages. The grammar is written in the framework of basic linguistic theory in order to make it accessible to a wide variety of readers, including specialists in Dene languages, linguists interested in the structure of non-Indo-European languages, and teachers and learners of Upper Tanana and related languages.
Author : Olga Lovick
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496213157
A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 provides a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of Upper Tanana, the book meticulously details a language that is currently fluently spoken by approximately fifty people in limited parts of Alaska’s eastern interior and Canada’s Yukon Territory. As part of the Dene (Athabascan) language group, Upper Tanana embodies elements of both the Alaskan and Canadian subgroups of Northern Dene. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of any of the Alaskan Dene languages. With the goal of preserving a language no longer consistently taught to younger generations, Olga Lovick’s foundational study is framed within the traditional form of linguistic theory that allows linguists and nonspecialists alike to study a vulnerable language that exists outside the dominant Indo-European mainstream. This text provides a substantive bulwark to protect a language acutely threatened by near-term extinction. In its expansive detailing of the Upper Tanana language, this volume is methodologically oriented toward structural linguistics through approaches focusing on phonology, lexical classes, and morphology. With attention to both detail and thoroughness, Lovick’s comparative approach provides solid grounding for the future survival of the Upper Tanana language.
Author : Carmen Dagostino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110712741
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.
Author : Jim Freedman
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772821926
Papers presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1975 are offered in two volumes. The first volume includes those which were delivered in the “Myth and Culture” and “The Theory of Markedness in Social Relations and Language” sessions. This second contains those from the “Contemporary Trends in Caribbean Ethnology”, “African Ethnology”, “Anthropology in Canada”, “The Crees and the Geese”, “Early Mercantile Enterprises in Anthropological Perspectives” and “Volunteered Papers” sessions.
Author : Annette McFadyen Clark
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 177282190X
The seventeen papers on Northern Athapaskan research in ethnology, linguistics, and archaeology published in these two volumes were presented at the National Museum of Man Northern Athapaskan Conference in March 1971. The papers are prefaced by a short introduction that outlines the rationale and accomplishments of the Conference.
Author : Darya Kavitskaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192845810
This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. Historical linguistics does not solely focus on reconstructing a language's linguistic past and exploring the mechanisms underlying previous language changes; it also addresses broader questions concerning the development and ongoing evolution of language. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite, Proto-Turkic, and Proto-Bantu, and from present-day languages including Akan, Cantonese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Selis-Ql'ispé, Nivaclé, and Spanish. The contributions showcase current research in historical linguistics and exemplify the dynamism and inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field.
Author : Olga Lovick
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 149621921X
A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 provides a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of Upper Tanana, the book meticulously details a language that is currently fluently spoken by approximately fifty people in limited parts of Alaska’s eastern interior and Canada’s Yukon Territory. As part of the Dene (Athabascan) language group, Upper Tanana embodies elements of both the Alaskan and Canadian subgroups of Northern Dene. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of any of the Alaskan Dene languages. With the goal of preserving a language no longer consistently taught to younger generations, Olga Lovick’s foundational study is framed within the traditional form of linguistic theory that allows linguists and nonspecialists alike to study a vulnerable language that exists outside the dominant Indo-European mainstream. This text provides a substantive bulwark to protect a language acutely threatened by near-term extinction. In its expansive detailing of the Upper Tanana language, this volume is methodologically oriented toward structural linguistics through approaches focusing on phonology, lexical classes, and morphology. With attention to both detail and thoroughness, Lovick’s comparative approach provides solid grounding for the future survival of the Upper Tanana language.
Author : William C. Sturtevant
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples.
Author : Michel Tournier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803244306
Tournier treats pairs both lowly and exalted - moving from fork and spoon, horse and bull, cat and dog, to fear and anguish, poetry and prose, body and soul, being and nothingness. Hardly an exhaustive inventory of traditional pairs, his selection nonetheless opens the door to patterns deeply embedded in culture and civilization, speech and writing, memory and habit.