Author : Mauricio J. Mixco
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
DICTIONARY OF THE KILIWAN TRIBE OF BAJA CALIFORNIA.
Author : Mauricio J. Mixco
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Mauricio J. Mixco
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Kiliwa language
ISBN :
Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317851080
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.
Author : William Shipley
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1963
Category : ENGLISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES MAIDU
ISBN :
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 15,34 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.
Author : Cecil H. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195352874
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.
Author : Carmen Dagostino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 11,98 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 : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110862794
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2007-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748630198
Historical Linguistics - the study of language change - is a major field in linguistics. With its long history and numerous subfields of its own, Historical Linguistics provides challenges to both beginning students and scholars not specialized in this field. This Glossary meets these challenges by providing accessible and widely representative definitions, discussion, and examples of key terms and concepts used in the field. It is written by two well-known authorities in this field. The book is extremely valuable to anyone wishing to understand historical linguistic terminology and concepts. Key features:* A handy, easily understandable pocket guide, and a valuable companion for courses in Historical Linguistics, history of individual languages, history of linguistics, and for anyone curious about how and why languages change.* Numerous cross-references to related terms* Covers new as well as traditional terminology* Not only defines, but provides examples and relevant discussion
