Author: Sally McLendon
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Category : Pomo languages
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Victor Golla
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520389670
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.

Author: R.E. Asher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317851099
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author: Neil Alexander Walker
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496218892
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.

Author: Paul Radin
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Sylvia M. Broadbent
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: Abraham Meyer Halpern
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Category : Hokan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Samuel Alfred Barrett
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Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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"Most of the myths here recorded were obtained from the older people who acquired them from their elders long before, and when they were in much more complete and detailed form than could possibly be found at the present time, after upwards of thirty additional years of the so-called civilizing process. Many are in all probability as fully detailed as they ever were given in the days before the advent of the white man. A few are fragmentary, and represent the abbreviated and sketchy versions recalled by some individual whose memory for that sort of thing was not of the best; but even these often show interesting variants of myth themes; and often such a fragmentary version throws an important light on some particular point. It has seemed best, therefore, to utilize every one collected, whether it be fully detailed and told with all the elaborate circumstance of its ancient recounting, or whether it be a sketchy, abbreviated account ... myths here recorded were in a large measure taken down in full long hand, and as free translations directly from the informant if he could speak English with sufficient ease. If not, then it was taken in the same manner through an interpreter. Some were taken in text form with interlinear, and also with free translations"--Page 8.

Author: Benjamin Eli Smith
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1106

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