The Languages of Native North America
The Languages of Native North America
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USDThis book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, a catalog of the languages that details their locations, genetic affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and lists published material on them.
- A comprehensive reference work on all the indigenous languages of North America, listing their locations, number of speakers, genetic affiliation, structural features, and published sources
- It shows how structures in a number of North American languages call into question some long-held assumptions in linguistic theory, e.g. the distinction between nouns and verbs, roots and affixes etc.
- The linguistic data provides examples of very elaborately developed grammatical distinctions, including those of number, control, means and manner, location, tense, aspect, and modality
Reviews & endorsements
'This volume is a most welcome continuation of a most useful series. it is a great pleasure to review Marianne Mithun's The Languages of Native North America in the Cambridge Language Surveys, since one can only express admiration for the tremendous amount of labour behind this book. There are very few people in modern native North American linguistics, if any, who could do an equally beautiful job as Mithun.' Linguistic Typology
Product details
July 2001Paperback
9780521298759
796 pages
237 × 146 × 42 mm
1.123kg
12 maps
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Nature of the Languages:
- 1. Sounds and sound patterns
- 2. Words
- 3. Grammatical categories
- 4. Sentences
- 5. Special language
- Part II. Catalogue of Languages:
- 6. Relations among the languages
- 7. Catalogue.
