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Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algya̲x)

Author : Jean Gail Mulder

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 19,20 MB

Release : 1994-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780520097889

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00 This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). This language is very highly morphologically ergative and the distribution of ergativity is conditioned by several different factors that are related through their coding of transitivity. Syntactically, the language is not highly ergative, but none of the cross-linguistic definitions of subject can account for the ergativity that does exist. This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). This language is very highly morphologically ergative and the distribution of ergativity is conditioned by several different factors that are related through their coding of transitivity. Syntactically, the language is not highly ergative, but none of the cross-linguistic definitions of subject can account for the ergativity that does exist.



The Languages of Native North America

Author : Marianne Mithun

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 800 pages

File Size : 28,10 MB

Release : 2001-06-07

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780521298759

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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.



Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance

Author : David Bradley

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 394 pages

File Size : 12,50 MB

Release : 2013-12-16

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1136852786

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Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed? This volume comprises: * a general overview introduction * four theoretical chapters on what happens during language shift * ten case studies of autochthonous languages under threat * four case studies of migrant languages at risk * three concluding chapters discussing strategies and resources for language maintenance.



The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America

Author : Carmen Dagostino

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 922 pages

File Size : 31,81 MB

Release : 2023-12-18

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 3110712814

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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.



Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office

Publisher :

Page : 1662 pages

File Size : 33,99 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress

ISBN :

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Practical dictionary of the Coast Tsimshian language

Author : John Asher Dunn

Publisher : University of Ottawa Press

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 44,60 MB

Release : 1978-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1772822051

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Continuing the work of early researchers like Franz Boas and Amelia Susman, this volume offers readers an indexed Coast Tsimshian dictionary where each lexical entry includes a practical transcription, morphological description, English glosses, and phonetic transcriptions illustrating local variations.





What We Learned

Author : Helen Raptis

Publisher : UBC Press

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 38,34 MB

Release : 2016-02-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0774830220

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Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed administrative records, we know little about the actual experiences of the students themselves. In What We Learned, two generations of Tsimshian students – a group of elders born in the 1930s and 1940s and a group of middle-aged adults born in the 1950s and 1960s – reflect on their traditional Tsimshian education and the formal schooling they received in northwestern British Columbia. Their stories offer a starting point for understanding the legacy of day schools on Indigenous lives and communities. Their recollections also invite readers to consider a broader notion of education – one that includes traditional Indigenous views that conceive of learning as a lifelong experience that takes place across multiple contexts.



The Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Author : Lyle Campbell

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 625 pages

File Size : 48,86 MB

Release : 2024

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 0197673465

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The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.



People of the Saltwater

Author : Charles R. Menzies

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 44,46 MB

Release : 2022-11

Category :

ISBN : 1496232623

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People of the Saltwater is an exploration of an ancient community of the Gitxaala Nation and how its members relate socially, politically, and economically to the rest of the world.