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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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| 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.


