The languages and linguistics of indigenous North America : a comprehensive guide, Vol. 2 / edited by Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dagostino, Carmen, editor.

Mithun, Marianne, editor.

Rice, Keren, 1949- editor.

Series:

World of linguistics ; v. 13.2.

The world of linguistics ; volume 13.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous people--Languages.

Indians of North America--Languages.

Indians of North America.

Linguistics--North America.

Linguistics.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (998 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Table of contents

VII Language revitalization

32 Reviving languages: Outcomes of a Mentor-Apprentice style learning study

33 Child and child-directed speech in North American languages

34 Decolonizing Indigenous language pedagogies: Additional language learning and teaching

35 Digital tools for language revitalization

36 Using archival materials for language reclamation

37 Changing notions of fieldwork

VIII Language families and isolates

38 Inuit-Yupik-Unangan: An overview of the language family

39 Dene - Athabaskan

40 Algonquian

41 Michif

42 Tsimshianic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110712742

3110712741

9783110712810

3110712814

OCLC:

1419790090