California Indian Languages

California Indian Languages
Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 395
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520389670
ISBN-13 : 0520389670
Rating : 4/5 (670 Downloads)

Book Synopsis California Indian Languages by : Victor Golla

Download or read book California Indian Languages written by Victor Golla and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the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.


California Indian Languages Related Books

California Indian Languages
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Victor Golla
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-
Surviving Through the Days
Language: en
Pages: 660
Authors: Herbert W. Luthin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-06-27 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"This unique and original book sets the standard for such volumes. I can't see anyone coming along for quite some time who would be able to supersede it or top
The Life of Language
Language: en
Pages: 533
Authors: Jane H. Hill
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-24 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas
The Languages of Native North America
Language: en
Pages: 800
Authors: Marianne Mithun
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological
The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
Language: en
Pages: 108
Authors: Xiao-nan Susan Shen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to in