The Chinook Jargon, and How to Use It
The Chinook Jargon, and How to Use It

Author: George C. Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781331890942

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Excerpt from The Chinook Jargon, and How to Use It: A Complete and Exhaustive, Lexicon of the Oldest Trade, Language of the American Continent About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It
The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It

Author: George C. Shaw

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-06-22

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781500284251

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A READY lexicon of interest to students and scholars of Indian languages. The work is the most comprehensive and exhaustive study of the Chinook jargon in existence to-day, comprising a complete grammar and dictionary, with nearly three thousand specimens of colloquial and narrative phrases, with English translations, etc. It is intended to afford a complete lexicon for the use of students and scholars, as well as an attractive and characteristic souvenir of the Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The Chinook jargon is the prevailing medium of intercourse between the whites and the natives, and is spoken by about thirty thousand people in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, and in some parts of Alaska. It is one of the most curious specimens of a "mixed language" which philologists have had the opportunity of analyzing, and has been termed a genuine “international speech,” which “may well serve, if not as a model, at least as a finger-post to direct us to some higher invention for sub-serving the larger uses of an advanced civilization.” —Publishers Weekly, Volume 75, [1909]

Language Complexity
Language Complexity

Author: Matti Miestamo

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008-02-06

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9027291357

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Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the topic. The sixteen chapters of the volume approach the notion of language complexity from a variety of perspectives. The papers are divided into three thematic sections that reflect the central themes of the book: Typology and theory, Contact and change, Creoles and pidgins. The book is mainly intended for typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and creolists, as well as all linguists interested in language complexity in general. As the first collective volume on a very topical theme, the book is expected to be of lasting interest to the linguistic community.

The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It; A Complete and Exhaustive Lexicon of the Oldest Trade Language of the American Continent
The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It; A Complete and Exhaustive Lexicon of the Oldest Trade Language of the American Continent

Author: George Coombs Shaw

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781346792668

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Language Contact in the Arctic
Language Contact in the Arctic

Author: Ernst Hakon Jahr

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-06-03

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 3110813300

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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.

The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It
The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It

Author: George Coombs Shaw

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781295755479

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