Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1557094640
A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1616403047
Written in 1643 at a time of great turmoil between Native Americans and the English settlers, A Key into the Language of America is a study of American Indian life, religion, and language. Written by an advocate of Native American rights and treatment, the book presents a number of ideas that seem anti-English and bring to light the prejudices held by the pilgrims. The book was the first study of Native American language written in English, and the commentary on Indian ways of life make it a worthwhile read. Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) was the founder of Rhode Island and an outspoken pioneer who fought for Native American rights in New England in the 17th century.
Author : Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811212878
A white woman's recreation of the sound and spirit of Indian poetry. A sampler: "eagle / turkey / partridge / cormorant / Ptowewushannick. / They are fled."
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107392802
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 : Roger Williams
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : William Edward White
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0879352604
Debate keeps America vibrant. Debate over what course America should take. Debate over our shared, democratic values. Debate over the extent that our shared values influence public policy—and in which direction. Far from being a sign that our democratic republic is failing, this raucous, controversial, enduring debate—this Great Debate—indicates our republic is healthy. Americans continually seek, in the words of the Preamble to the Constitution, “to form a more perfect union.” Not everyone agrees on how best to do that—and that’s where civic and civil debate comes in. Americans have debated what course the nation should take since before there was a nation.
Author : Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110800942
Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN :
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : Rosina Lozano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0520969588
"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.
