American Indian Languages And American Linguistics
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American Indian Languages
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2000-09-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195349832 |
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Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.
American Indian Languages
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9780195140507 |
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Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
Origin of the Earth and Moon
Author | : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816521395 |
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This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
American Indian Languages
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Anthropological linguistics |
ISBN | : 0197721265 |
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Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history and classification of Native American languages and, in the process, examine the state of American Indian linguistics and the success of its various methodologies.
American Indian Linguistics and Literature
Author | : William Bright |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110863116 |
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Origin of the Earth and Moon
Author | : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816521395 |
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This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
Handbook of American Indian Languages
Author | : Franz Boas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044042802934 |
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Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee. (AB1739).
Language Change in South American Indian Languages
Author | : Mary Ritchie Key |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781512803068 |
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South American Indian Languages are a particularly rich field for comparative study, and this book brings together some of the finest scholarship now being done in that area.