Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics
Title | Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rudin |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 503 |
Release | 2016-05-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3946234372 |
The Siouan family comprises some twenty languages, historically spoken across a broad swath of the central North American plains and woodlands, as well as in parts of the southeastern United States. In spite of its geographical extent and diversity, and the size and importance of several Siouan-speaking tribes, this family has received relatively little attention in the linguistic literature and many of the individual Siouan languages are severely understudied. This volume aims to make work on Siouan languages more broadly available and to encourage deeper investigation of the myriad typological, theoretical, descriptive, and pedagogical issues they raise. The 17 chapters in this volume present a broad range of current Siouan research, focusing on various Siouan languages, from a variety of linguistic perspectives: historical-genetic, philological, applied, descriptive, formal/generative, and comparative/typological. The editors' preface summarizes characteristic features of the Siouan family, including head-final and "verb-centered" syntax, a complex system of verbal affixes including applicatives and subject-possessives, head-internal relative clauses, gendered speech markers, stop-systems including ejectives, and a preference for certain prosodic and phonotactic patterns. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert L. Rankin, a towering figure in Siouan linguistics throughout his long career, who passed away in February of 2014.
Advances in the Study of Siouan Languages and Linguistics
Title | Advances in the Study of Siouan Languages and Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rudin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2016-05-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783946234395 |
The Siouan family comprises some twenty languages, historically spoken across a broad swath of the central North American plains and woodlands, as well as in parts of the southeastern United States. In spite of its geographical extent and diversity, and the size and importance of several Siouan-speaking tribes, this family has received relatively little attention in the linguistic literature and many of the individual Siouan languages are severely understudied. This volume aims to make work on Siouan languages more broadly available and to encourage deeper investigation of the myriad typological, theoretical, descriptive, and pedagogical issues they raise. The 17 chapters in this volume present a broad range of current Siouan research, focusing on various Siouan languages, from a variety of linguistic perspectives: historical-genetic, philological, applied, descriptive, formal/generative, and comparative/typological. The editors' preface summarizes characteristic features of the Siouan family, including head-final and "verb-centered" syntax, a complex system of verbal affixes including applicatives and subject-possessives, head-internal relative clauses, gendered speech markers, stop-systems including ejectives, and a preference for certain prosodic and phonotactic patterns. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert L. Rankin, a towering figure in Siouan linguistics throughout his long career, who passed away in February of 2014.
Advances in the Study of Siouan Languages and Linguistics
Title | Advances in the Study of Siouan Languages and Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rudin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2020-10-09 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781013286179 |
" The Siouan family comprises some twenty languages, historically spoken across a broad swath of the central North American plains and woodlands, as well as in parts of the southeastern United States. In spite of its geographical extent and diversity, and the size and importance of several Siouan-speaking tribes, this family has received relatively little attention in the linguistic literature and many of the individual Siouan languages are severely understudied. This volume aims to make work on Siouan languages more broadly available and to encourage deeper investigation of the myriad typological, theoretical, descriptive, and pedagogical issues they raise. The 17 chapters in this volume present a broad range of current Siouan research, focusing on various Siouan languages, from a variety of linguistic perspectives: historical-genetic, philological, applied, descriptive, formal/generative, and comparative/typological. The editors' preface summarizes characteristic features of the Siouan family, including head-final and ""verb-centered"" syntax, a complex system of verbal affixes including applicatives and subject-possessives, head-internal relative clauses, gendered speech markers, stop-systems including ejectives, and a preference for certain prosodic and phonotactic patterns. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert L. Rankin, a towering figure in Siouan linguistics throughout his long career, who passed away in February of 2014. " This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Siouan Languages and Linguistics
Title | Siouan Languages and Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 447 |
Release | 2024-05-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900440628X |
Robert L. Rankin was a seminal figure in late 20th and early 21st centuries in the field of Siouan linguistics. His knowledge, like the papers he produced, was voluminous. We have gathered here a representation of his work that spans over thirty years. The papers presented here focus on both the languages Rankin studied in depth (Quapaw, Kansa, Biloxi, Ofo, and Tutelo) and comparative historical work on the Siouan language family in general. While many of the papers included have been previously published, one third of them have never before been made public including a grammatical sketch and dictionary of Ofo and his final paper on the place of Mandan in the larger Siouan family.
The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
Title | The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America PDF eBook |
Author | Carmen Dagostino |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 998 |
Release | 2023-12-18 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110712741 |
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.
Siouan Languages and Linguistics
Title | Siouan Languages and Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Rankin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9789004399198 |
This volume includes seventeen papers by Robert L. Rankin. The papers included here focus on comparative-historical work on the Siouan language family, typological features from that family, and more specific language descriptions on Ofo, Kansa and Quapaw.
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific
Title | Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Bisang |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 2020-09-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110712792 |
This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.