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Kawaiisu
A Grammar and Dictionary, With Texts
Av Maurice L. Zigmond, Curtis G. Booth m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
735 kr
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Kawaiisu offers the most comprehensive record of the language and culture of the Kawaiisu people, a Native community of the southern Sierra Nevada and adjacent desert regions of California. Drawing on decades of collaboration with Kawaiisu speakers, Maurice L. Zigmond, Curtis G. Booth, and Pamela …
Nez Perce Dictionary
Av Haruo Aoki
Inbunden, 1994
491 kr
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In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, which is spoken in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, the author illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature; the dictionary is thus also a concordance. In addition, the author retranscribes …
Twins Stories
Participant Coding in Yagua Narrative
Häftad, 1993
471 kr
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This work is a quantitative discourse study of referential devices in Yagua, a relatively unstudied language of the Amazon basin. Of particular interest are folktales in which the major participants are matched pairs, and which involve extensive use of direct speech. A major finding is that the …
Swahili and Sabaki
A Linguistic History
Av Derek Nurse, Thomas J. Hinnebusch
Häftad, 1993
1249 kr
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The Sabaki languages form a major Bantu subgroup and are spoken by 35 million East Africans in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Comoro Islands. The authors provide a historical/comparative treatment of Swahili (and other Sabaki languages), an account of the relationship of Swahili to …
Studies in American Indian Languages
Description and Theory
Av Leanne Hinton, Pamela Munro
Häftad, 1998
603 kr
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This 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 …
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian)
Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary
Häftad, 1995
746 kr
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This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic (proto-Afrasian). It rigorously applies, throughout, the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method. It also fully incorporates the most up-to-date evidence from the …
Central Hill Nisenan Texts with Grammatical Sketch
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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Central Hill Nisenan was spoken in the hills northeast of Sacramento, California, but like many other California languages, it is no longer spoken. This monograph includes texts recorded by the late Richard Smith, a brief description of the language (with chapters on phonology, morphology, and …
Past Participles from Latin to Romance
Häftad, 1999
1117 kr
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From Latin through the Romance languages, which types of past participle survived? Which older, "irregular" types disappeared and which older, "regular" types proliferated? Which new types of past participles emerged, which proved popular in standard Romance languages, and which exist in a wide …
Nuuchahnulth (Nootka) Morphosyntax
Häftad, 2002
341 kr
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This volume describes aspects of word- and sentence-formation in Nuuchahnulth (formerly known as Nootka), a language spoken on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Aspects included are polysynthetic word formation, word classes, and clause structure. The morphosyntactic …
Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman
System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2003
887 kr
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This 800-page volume is a clear and readable presentation of the current state of research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over 250 languages spoken in Southern China, the Himalayas, NE India, and peninsular Southeast Asia. The TB languages …
Proto-Wintun
Häftad, 2006
590 kr
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This volume represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. It includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. The book fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of …
Reference Grammar of Wappo
Av Sandra A. Thompson, Joseph Sung-Yul Park m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
676 kr
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Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based on the speech of Laura Fish Somersal, its last fluent speaker, who died in 1990, and represents the …
Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System
Toward an Etymological Thesaurus
Häftad, 2008
350 kr
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This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with …
Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem
Häftad, 2009
842 kr
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An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C., giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, …
Chimariko Grammar
Areal and Typological Perspective
Av Carmen Jany
Häftad, 2009
471 kr
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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 …
Coproduction and Coarticulation in IsiZulu Clicks
Häftad, 2010
471 kr
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This book provides an in-depth look at the production of clicks using a variety of different techniques. Static palatography, linguography, electropalatography, and aerodynamic data, including the intra-oral pressure of the click cavity, never previously before measured, all combine to create a …
Ingush Grammar
Häftad, 2011
667 kr
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This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Ingush, a language of the Nakh branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian or East Caucasian language family of the central Caucasus (southern Russia). Ingush is notable for its complex phonology, prosody including minimal tone system, complex morphology of both …
Consonant Harmony
Long-Distance Interactions in Phonology
Häftad, 2010
691 kr
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This extensive survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages reveals surprising diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers new empirical generalizations and tendencies. Striking parallels with phonological speech errors suggest a connection to the psycholinguistic domain of …
Crossing Aspectual Frontiers
Emergence, Evolution, and Interwoven Semantic Domains in South Conchucos Quechua Discourse
Häftad, 2011
691 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive account of the grammatical expression of aspect and related semantic domains in South Conchucos Quechua, a language of central Peru. Based on naturally-occurring speech, the functional-typological approach applied here integrates the description of the synchronic …
Grammar of Nzadi [B865]
A Bantu language of Democratic Republic of Congo
Av Thera Marie Crane, Larry M. Hyman m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
491 kr
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This publication presents the first documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is the product of extensive study by the authors and participants in field methods and group study courses at the University of …
Grammar of Cupeno
Av Jane H. Hill
Häftad, 2005
676 kr
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In one of the most thorough studies ever prepared of a California language, Hill's grammar reviews the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse features of Cupeno, a Uto-Aztecan (takic) language of California. Cupeno exhibits many unusual typological features, including split ergativity, that …
Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist
Av Alhaji Maina Gimba, Russell G. Schuh
Häftad, 2014
823 kr
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This is a dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of any Chadic language other than Hausa. All entries for Bole are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The Bole-English-Hausa …
Grammar of the Seneca Language
Häftad, 2014
823 kr
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The Seneca language belongs to the Northern Iroquoian branch of the Iroquoian language family, where its closest relatives are Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora. Seneca holds special typological interest because of its high degree of polysynthesis and fusion. It is historically …
Creek (Muskogee) Texts
Av Mary R. Haas, James H. Hill
Inbunden, 2015
579 kr
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When Mary R. Haas died in 1996, she left behind several thousand pages of notes and texts in the Creek (Muskogee) language collected in Oklahoma from 1936 to 1940. The majority of the texts come from the unpublished writings of James H. Hill of Eufaula, an especially knowledgeable elder who …
Yuki Grammar
With Sketches of Huchnom and Coast Yuki
Inbunden, 2016
1190 kr
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The Yuki language, including Huchnom and Coast Yuki, was spoken in Mendocino County until relatively recently (the last speaker died in 1983). This grammar is based primarily on spoken narratives recorded by Alfred Kroeber between 1901-1911. While Yuki was extensively documented over the course of …
Cocopa Dictionary
Inbunden, 2023
843 kr
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The Cocopa Dictionary serves as a vital resource in documenting and preserving the Cocopa language, a member of the Yuman family, spoken by communities in southwestern Arizona and northern Mexico. With a heritage rooted in the Colorado River delta region, this language connects its speakers to a …
Cocopa Dictionary
Häftad, 2023
491 kr
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The Cocopa Dictionary serves as a vital resource in documenting and preserving the Cocopa language, a member of the Yuman family, spoken by communities in southwestern Arizona and northern Mexico. With a heritage rooted in the Colorado River delta region, this language connects its speakers to a …
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