Yuman Texts
Author: Margaret Langdon
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
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The Languages of Native North America
Author: Marianne Mithun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-06-07
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780521298759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Tipai Ethnographic Notes
Author: William D. Hohenthal
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780879191443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a first-hand ethnographic description of Tipai/Diegueno communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s, with information on tribes and clans, settlements, subsistence, material culture, social life, government, religious beliefs and practices, and healing. This work is of interest as a compendium of ethnographic data and as a primary historical source regarding the creation of knowledge in American cultural anthropology. Includes a separate bandw map. Hohenthal taught anthropology at San Francisco State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Counting Sheep
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780816513987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unusual anthology demonstrates the range of possibilities in nature writing with contributions from Charles Bowden, Julian Hayden, Danny Lopez, Charles Sheldon, Ann Zwinger, and others". Essential reading for naturalists and conservationists. Highly recommended".--Library Journal.
Atlas of the World's Languages
Author: R.E. Asher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 1009
ISBN-13: 1317851080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore 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.
Cocopa Texts
Author: James Mack Crawford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780520096523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBibliography of the Languages of Native California
Author: William Bright
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780810815476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive, annotated listing of over a thousand books, monographs, and articles containing substantive information on all the American Indian languages of California and closely related languages outside its boundaries. Important book reviews are included, as are unpublished theses and dissertations. The main listing is by author, with cross-references for co-author. A single index, which refers back to the main listing by item numbers, lists general works; names of dialects, languages, and language families; and miscellaneous topics.
American Indian Quarterly
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 660
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Author: Leanne Hinton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0520097890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists today. Half of the essays treat Hokan languages, but Uto-Aztecan, Penutian, Muskogean, Iroquoian, Mayan, and other groups are also represented, with pieces on phonology, syntax, the lexicon, and discourse.
