The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America A Comprehensive Guide Volume 1 1st Edition by Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, Keren Rice 3110597985 9783110597981

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ISBN 10: 3110597985

ISBN 13: 9783110597981

Author: Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, Keren Rice

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Table of contents:

I Sounds and sound structure

1.Acoustic phonetics

2. Articulatory phonetics

3. Tone

4. Segmental phonology

5. Prosodic morphology

6. Word prosody

7. Prosody beyond the word

II Words
8. What is a word?
9. Word classes

III Sentences
10. Syntax within the clause
11. Negatives
12. Questions and requests in North American languages
13. Information structure
14. Clause-combining: Relative clauses
15. Clause combining: Syntax of subordination and complementation
16. Switch-reference and event cohesion

IV Discourse
17. Verbal art
18. Conversation structure

V Meaning
19. Lexicalization and lexical meaning
20. Lexicography
21. Evidentiality
22. Pluractionality and distributivity
23. Mass and count nouns
24. Sense of place: Space, landscape, and orientation
25. A sense of time and world
26. Pragmatics

VI Languages over space and time
27. Languages as dynamic systems: How grammar can emerge
28. Language contact and linguistic areas
29. Language classification
30. Archival-based sociolinguistic variation
31. Community-based sociolinguistic variation

 

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