Book
Handbook of North American Indians : languages Volume 17
Record details
- ISBN: 0160487749
- Physical Description: xiii, 947 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.
- Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, 1996.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 Includes two separate maps (one folded) in a sleeve in back of book. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 764-925) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | [pt. 1.] Introduction / Ives Goddard -- The description of the native languages of North America before Boas / Ives Goddard -- The description of the native languages of North America: Boas and after / Marianne Mithun -- Language and the culture of history of North America / Michael K. Foster -- Borrowing / Catherine A. Callaghan and Geoffrey Gamble -- Dynamics of linguistic contact / Michael Silverstein -- Overview of general characteristics / Marianne Mithun -- Native writing systems / Willard B. Walker -- Place-names / Patricia O. Afable and Madison S. Beeler -- Personal names / David H. French and Katherine S. French -- The ethnography of speaking / Wick R. Miller -- Discourse / M. Dale Kinkade and Anthony Mattina -- Nonspeech communication systems / Allan R. Taylor -- The classification of the native languages of North America / Ives Goddard -- [pt. 2.] Grammatical sketches: Sketch of Central Alaskan Yupik, an Eskimo language / Osahito Miyaoka -- Sketch of Hupa, an Athapaskan language / Victor Golla -- Sketch of Cree, an Algonquin language / H.C. Wolfart -- Sketch of Lakhota, a Siouan language / David S. Rood and Allan R. Taylor -- Sketch of the Zuni language / Stanley Newman -- Sketch of Eastern Pomo, a Pomoan language / Sally McLendon -- Sketch of Seneca, an Iroquoian language / Wallace L. Chafe -- Sketch of Wichita, a Caddoan language / David S Rood -- Sketch of Thompson, a Salishan language / Lawrence C. Thompson, M. Terry Thompson, and Steven M. Egesdal -- Sketch of Coahuilteco, a language isolate of Texas / Rudolph C. Troike -- Sketch of Sahaptin, a Sahaptian language / Bruce Rigsby and Noel Rude -- Sketch of Shoshone, a Uto-Aztecan language / Wick R. miller -- sources / Herbert J. Landar. |
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| Subject: | First Nations -- Languages Indians of North America -- Languages |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | E 76.2 H36 V.17 (Text) | 26040002309728 | Reference - Research Desk | Volume hold | Available | - |
