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Consonant Harmony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 439

Consonant Harmony

A revised version of the author's 2001 doctoral dissertation.

Approaches to Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 689

Approaches to Language

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Syntactic Heads and Word Formation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Syntactic Heads and Word Formation

Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the position of those verbs. She surveys 530 languages and shows that, with the exception of agreement markers, the positioning of verbal inflectional markers relative to verb stems is compatible with a syntactic approach to morphology.

Intimate Grammars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Intimate Grammars

On April 24, 2013, Luci Tapahonso became the first poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, possibly the first Native American community to create such a post. The establishment of this position testifies to the importance of Navajo poets and poetry to the Navajo Nation. It also indicates the Navajo equivalence to the poetic traditions connected with the U.S. poet laureate and the poet laureate of the United Kingdom, author Anthony K. Webster asserts, as well as its separateness from those traditions. Intimate Grammars takes an ethnographic and ethnopoetic approach to language and culture in contemporary time, in which poetry and poets are increasingly important and visible in the Navajo Nation. ...

Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The essays in this volume address foundational questions in phonology that cut across different schools of thought within the discipline.

American Indian Languages 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 561

American Indian Languages 2

The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language specialists are providing significant assistance in the making of this multi-volume series.

An Introduction to the Languages of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

An Introduction to the Languages of the World

This text is designed to introduce students to the variety of languages of the world.

Perspectives on Grammar Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Perspectives on Grammar Writing

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The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 769

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Paddling to Where I Stand
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Paddling to Where I Stand

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

The Kwakwakawakw people and their culture have been the subject of more anthropological writings than any other ethnic group on the Northwest Coast. Until now, however, no biography had been written by or about a Kwakwakawakw woman. Paddling to Where I Stand presents the memoirs of Agnes Alfred (c.1890-1992), a non-literate noble Qwiqwasutinuxw woman of the Kwakwakawakw Nation and one of the last great storytellers among her peers in the classic oral tradition. Agnes Alfred documents through myths, historical accounts, and personal reminiscences the foundations and the enduring pulse of her living culture. She shows how a First Nations woman managed to quietly fulfill her role as a noble mat...