The languages and linguistics of indigenous North America : a comprehensive guide, Vol. 1 / edited by Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dagostino, Carmen, editor.

Mithun, Marianne, editor.

Rice, Keren, editor.

Series:

World of linguistics ; Volume 13.1.

The World of Linguistics [WOL] Series ; Volume 13.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Languages.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--Languages.

Indigenous people of North America--Languages.

Indigenous peoples--Languages.

Indigenous peoples.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Languages.

Indigenous people of North America--Languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

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:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of contents

List of North American families, languages, and dialects

Maps

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110600926

3110600927

9783110598698

3110598698

OCLC:

1408681638