Cocopa Dictionary
Author : James Mack Crawford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520097490
Cocopa Dictionary
Author : James Crawford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520398912
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
A Dictionary of the Osage Language
Author : Francis La Flesche
Publisher :
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 1932
Category : English language
ISBN :
Book Description
California Indian Languages
Author : Victor Golla
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0520389670
Book Description
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the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the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.
The Languages of Native North America
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521298759
Book Description
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.
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Author : Cecil H. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195352874
Book Description
Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.
Atlas of the World's Languages
Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317851080
Book Description
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.
Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar
Author : Jon Philip Dayley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520097520
Book Description
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.
Wintu Texts
Author : Alice Shepherd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520097483
Book Description
The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
Author : Xiao-nan Susan Shen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520097506
Book Description
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.
