Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 110806342X
Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee.
Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781377147338
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Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780803250178
Two major anthropological works study the roots, structure, and classification of Indian languages.
Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108063446
Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee.
Author : Frederick E. Hoxie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199858896
The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change.
Author : Shirley Silver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816521395
This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1997
Category : America
ISBN : 0195140508
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
Author : Franz Boas
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311025803X
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
Author : Victor Golla
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520266676
"Victor Golla has been the leading scholar of California Indian languages for most of his professional life, and this book shows why. His ability to synthesize centuries of fieldwork and writings while bringing forward new ideas and fresh ways of looking at California’s famous linguistic diversity will make this the primary text for anyone interested in California languages."--Leanne Hinton, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley and author of How to Keep Your Language Alive “This book is a wonderful contribution that only Golla could have written. It is a perfect confluence of author and subject matter.”--Ives Goddard, Senior Linguist, Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution "Golla is a gifted polymath and California Indian Languages is certainly his landmark achievement, required reading for any linguist, archaeologist, ethnographer, or historian interested in aboriginal California."--Robert L. Bettinger, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Davis and author of Hunter-Gatherer Foraging "The preeminent figure in his field, Victor Golla has written a masterpiece filled with treasures for every audience: Indian communities working toward cultural and linguistic revival; general readers interested in the many cultures of Native California; and scholars in the fields of language, archaeology, and prehistory. The information here is so detailed that it supersedes all previous reference works."--Andrew Garrett, Professor of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley and Director, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages “This is a truly magnificent work, at once authoritative, comprehensive, accessible to a wide readership, and fascinating. Masterfully integrating linguistic, archaeological, historical, and cultural information, the author describes not just the languages, but also the major figures in the story: speakers, explorers, missionaries, and scholars. It is beautifully written, a great pleasure to read, and difficult to put down."--Marianne Mithun, author of The Languages of Native North America
