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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golla, Victor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Native American Languages.
Langage et langues.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord.
Langues indiennes d'Amerique > Californie.
Language
Indians, North American
Language and languages.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > California > Languages.
California.
California
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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