Author : Linda Womkon Badten
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 1987
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781555000295
Dictionary for language spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and at the southeastern tip of the Chukchi Peninsula in the USSR. Includes English to Yupik index.
Author :
Publisher : Alaska Native Language Center
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialects. Over these decades, Jacobson has combed through records of explorers, linguists, missionaries, and anyone who has come in contact with the actively migratory Yup'ik people. Combined with information from native Yup'ik speakers, that research has led to a richly detailed dictionary that covers the entire language and all its dialects. The dictionary also offers sections on Yup'ik spelling, early vocabulary, demonstrative words, and important intersections of Yup'ik language and culture such as the kayak, dogsled, parka, and old-style dwellings.
Author : Elizaveta Alikhanovna Dobrieva
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781555000851
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9783110124217
Author : Louis-Jacques Dorais
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773581766
The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers.
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 13,63 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 : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Alaska Natives
ISBN : 1602230048
Collects the oral literature, poetry, and life stories of Alaska's Native speakers of Yupik, Inupiaq, and Alutiiq, including ancient tales spanning generations as well as new traditions, accompanied by essays on each Native group's background.--(Source of description unspecified.)
Author : Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher : Utopia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 1995-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781555000622
Author : Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311027857X
The volume is a major grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY). It is the culmination of the author's linguistic studies done in Alaska and elsewhere since around 1960, with assistance of many native speakers. Central Alaskan Yupik is currently the most vigorous of the nineteen remaining Native Alaskan languages. Descriptive in nature, extensive and deep, this grammar is of typological and of ethnological/anthropological interest. Given the severely endangered state of the language, this much of descriptive linguistic material is without comparison in the field.
Author : Alaska Native Language Center
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
