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The Languages of Native North America
Marianne Mithun
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Description for The Languages of Native North America
Paperback. An authoritative and detailed survey of the languages of the North American Indians. Series Editor(s): Anderson, S. R.; Bresnan, J.; Comrie, B.; Dressler, W.; Ewen, C.; Lass, R. Series: Cambridge Language Surveys. Num Pages: 796 pages, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1104.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
796
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Language Surveys
Number of Pages
796
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521298759
SKU
V9780521298759
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Reviews for The Languages of Native North America
'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 ... Read more