Handbook of North American Indians: Plains
Title | Handbook of North American Indians: Plains PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Release | 1984 |
Genre | Eskimos |
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Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast
Title | Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast PDF eBook |
Author | William Sturtevant |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution |
Pages | 1068 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
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Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples in Siberia, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.
Handbook of American Indian Languages
Title | Handbook of American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Boas |
Publisher | Sagwan Press |
Pages | 920 |
Release | 2018-02-08 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781377147338 |
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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages
Title | Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Boas |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780803250178 |
Two major anthropological works study the roots, structure, and classification of Indian languages.
The Languages of Native North America
Title | The Languages of Native North America PDF eBook |
Author | Marianne Mithun |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 800 |
Release | 2001-06-07 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107392802 |
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Handbook of North American Indians: Languages
Title | Handbook of North American Indians: Languages PDF eBook |
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Release | 1984 |
Genre | Eskimos |
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Handbook of North American Indians
Title | Handbook of North American Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Ives Goddard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 957 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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