Salish Languages and Linguistics
Salish Languages and Linguistics

Author: Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-06-24

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 3110801256

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Nooksack Place Names
Nooksack Place Names

Author: Allan Richardson

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0774820489

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Place names can lead us on fascinating journeys into other cultures. They convey a people’s relationship to the land, their sense of place. For indigenous peoples, place names can also be central to the revival of endangered languages. This book takes readers on an exciting voyage into the history, language, and culture of the Nooksack Tribe of Washington State and southern British Columbia. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway trace the richness and strength of the Nooksack people’s connection to the land by documenting more than 150 places named by elders and mentioned in key historical texts. Descriptions of Nooksack history and naming patterns – combined with maps, photographs, and detailed linguistic analyses – give life to a nearly extinct language and illuminate the intertwined relationships of place, culture, language, and identity.

Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem
Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem

Author: Brent Douglas Galloway

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 1724

ISBN-13: 0520098722

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An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

Handbook of North American Indians: Plateau
Handbook of North American Indians: Plateau

Author: William C. Sturtevant

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13:

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Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples in Siberia, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.