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Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians

Author : Franz Boas

Publisher : Hughes Press

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 17,30 MB

Release : 2013-04

Category : History

ISBN : 9781473301979

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This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians' is a linguistic study on a Native North American tribe. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. Boas completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. Boas became a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1899 and founded the first Ph.D program in anthropology in America. He was also a leading figure in the creation of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Franz Boas had a long career and a great impact on many areas of study. He died on 21st December 1942.



Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians

Author : Franz 1858-1942 Boas

Publisher : Legare Street Press

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 10,44 MB

Release : 2021-09-10

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ISBN : 9781015095892

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.



Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians - Primary Source Edition

Author : Franz Boas

Publisher : Nabu Press

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 26,13 MB

Release : 2014-02-28

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ISBN : 9781294779629

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.



Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author : Franz Boas

Publisher : Scholar's Choice

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 41,9 MB

Release : 2015-02-12

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ISBN : 9781295984343

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.



The Tlingit Indians

Author : George Thornton Emmons

Publisher : University of Washington Press

Page : 548 pages

File Size : 50,25 MB

Release : 1991

Category : History

ISBN : 9780295970080

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When Emmons died in 1945, he left behind a mass of materials for a 65 line drawings, and 127 bandw photos. book on the Tlingit which he had begun as early as the 1880s, when he was stationed in Alaska with the US Navy. Ethnologist and archaeologist Frederica de Laguna has spent 30 years organizing Emmons ethnographic data, notes, drawings, sketches, and manuscripts, and has made significant additions from other sources and her own information, putting the entirety in chronological order, to present this invaluable ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Includes a biography of Emmons by Jean Low, as well as an extensive bibliography, 37 tables, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



The Grammar of Q

Author : Seth Cable

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 22,58 MB

Release : 2010-09-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0199780277

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The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under-documented language of North America. A major consequence of this new approach is that the phenomenon classically dubbed "pied-piping" does not actually exist.



Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure

Author : Timothy Shopen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 24 pages

File Size : 33,42 MB

Release : 2007-10-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 113946728X

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This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each new concept introduced. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Volume I covers parts-of-speech systems, word order, the noun phrase, clause types, speech act distinctions, the passive, and information packaging in the clause.



The Languages of Native North America

Author : Marianne Mithun

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 800 pages

File Size : 29,71 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.



The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages

Author : Daniel Siddiqi

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 598 pages

File Size : 32,19 MB

Release : 2019-09-25

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1351810278

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The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.



Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity II

Author : Francesca Di Garbo

Publisher : Language Science Press

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 35,17 MB

Release :

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3961101809

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The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. Volume two consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity. This volume is preceded by volume one, which, in addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.