| Author | : Richard T. Parr |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 1974-01-01 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1772821764 |
This bibliography brings together the relevant materials in linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, folklore, and ethnomusicology for the Athapaskan languages. It consists of approximately 5,000 entries, of which one-fourth have been annotated, as well as maps and census illustrations.
| Author | : Richard T. Parr |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Athapascan Indians |
| ISBN | : |
Approximately 5000 entries on the linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, folklore and ethnomusicology of the Athapaskan Indian languages. Covers published materials, theses, dissertations, and archive holdings.
| Author | : Marianne Mithun |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 800 |
| Release | : 2001-06-07 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521298759 |
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
| Author | : June Helm |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 530 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Athapascan Indians |
| ISBN | : |
Over 3900 entries (through June 1984) on the ethnology, linguistics, prehistory, and human biology of the Athapaskan speaking (Dene) Indians of Canada and Alaska and the Metis of the Canadian subarctic. Incorporates and replaces the 1973 edition.
| Author | : William Bright |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780810815476 |
A comprehensive, annotated listing of over a thousand books, monographs, and articles containing substantive information on all the American Indian languages of California and closely related languages outside its boundaries. Important book reviews are included, as are unpublished theses and dissertations. The main listing is by author, with cross-references for co-author. A single index, which refers back to the main listing by item numbers, lists general works; names of dialects, languages, and language families; and miscellaneous topics.
| Author | : John C. Rath |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1980-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1772822302 |
This book contains a listing of approximately 2,650 roots from the various North Waskashan lanugages, namely Heiltsuk (Bella Bella and Klemtu), Oowekyala (Rivers Inlet), Haisla (Kitimat) and Kwakwala (Alert Bay, Port Hardy, etc.). Each root is illustrated with lexical words from the language where it is represented, cognate words being brought together under a single entry and cross-referenced to each other as they occur at different points in the alphabetical order. The root list is preceded by concise phonologies of each language and an exposition of the techniques used to isolate roots in North Wakashan.
| Author | : Roger Gilstrap |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 80 |
| Release | : 1978-01-01 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1772822078 |
The author compares and contrasts the lexicon, phonology, and grammar of dialects spoken in five northwestern Quebec Algonquin communities. Isoglosses of contrasting features are provided in addition to an appendix of supplementary information.
| Author | : David McC. Grubb |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 1977-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1772821977 |
The author outlines a practical orthography for Kwakw’ala, the language spoken by the Kwagulh (Kwakiutl), of coastal British Columbia. In the first section he describes its use with a progression from the most familiar phonemes and symbols to the least while the second offers a functional exemplification in the form of cross-indexed Kwakw’ala-English (approximately 4,000 entries) and English-Kwakw’ala (about 12,000 entries) dictionaries.
| Author | : Margaret Berlin Blackman |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 1981-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1772822353 |
A description of Northern and Kaigani Haida culture change as understood from a study of over two hundred late nineteenth-century photographs and relevant documentary evidence and ethnographic data.
