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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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Auteur principal: Golla, Victor (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.