Wintu Grammar

Wintu Grammar

Author: Harvey Pitkin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780520096127

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Wintu Texts

Wintu Texts

Author: Alice Shepherd

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780520097483

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A Grammar of Patwin

A Grammar of Patwin

Author: Lewis C. Lawyer

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1496230426

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A Grammar of Patwin brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published description of the Patwin language.


The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions

The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions

Author: Roberto Zariquiey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-05-19

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0192593722

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This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions across a range of languages and language families in the Americas, including Arawakan, Eastern Tukano, Mataguayan, Panoan, and Takanan. Expressions denoting parts of the body often exhibit specific grammatical properties that are intrinsically related to their semantics, and frequently appear in dedicated constructions, many of which are found exclusively in association with these expressions. Following a detailed introduction and discussion of the foundations of body-part grammar, the chapters in the first part of the book investigate categorialization, lexicalization, and the semantic processes associated with body-part expressions. In the second part of the book, contributors investigate specific grammatical properties of body-part expressions, such as inalienability, incorporation, possessive constructions, prefixation, topicality, and word-formation strategies. The volume draws on data from lesser-known languages that are often under-represented in comparative work, and makes a significant contribution not only to the linguistics of the Americas and the typology of body-part expressions, but also to typological studies more broadly, and to historical, comparative, and anthropological linguistics.


Chimariko Grammar

Chimariko Grammar

Author: Carmen Jany

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0520098757

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The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.


Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar

Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar

Author: Jon Philip Dayley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780520097520

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This introductory descriptive grammar of T�mpisa (Panamint) Shoshone, a central Numic language in the Uto-Aztecan family, presents the most important grammatical elements and processes in the language, with regard to verb, noun, adjective and adverbial phrases, simple sentence constructions, coordination and sub- ordination, and phonology. Several texts and a basic vocabulary list are provided.


Language Diversity and Thought

Language Diversity and Thought

Author: John A. Lucy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-07-02

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780521387972

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An examination of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on the relationship between grammar and thought.


Language and the World

Language and the World

Author: Richard L Epstein

Publisher: Advanced Reasoning Forum

Published: 2021-07-09

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1938421574

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This book presents a new perspective on ways we encounter the world with our languages. There are two kinds of languages. Some direct speakers to encounter the world as made up of things. Others direct speakers to encounter the world as the flow of all with no idea of change, for there is no thing to change, only differing descriptions of the flow. The essays by Richard L. Epstein set out this division of languages and explore its significance for linguistics, metaphysics, thought, meaning, logic, and ethics. The other essays, by Dorothy Lee, Benjamin Lee Whorf, M. Dale Kinkade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Benson Mates, extend, or contradict, or support those ideas, leading to a large view of how we talk and understand, and how that affects how we live.