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California Indian Languages /

Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Golla, Victor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Defining California as a sociolinguistic area
  • pt. 2. History of study. Before linguistics ; Linguistic scholarship
  • pt. 3. Languages and language families. Algic languages ; Athabaskan (Na-Dene) languages ; Hokan languages ; Penutian languages ; Uto-Aztecan languages ; Languages of uncertain affiliation
  • pt. 4. Typological and areal features : California as a linguistic area. Phonology ; Grammar ; Linguistic culture
  • pt. 5. Linguistic prehistory.