Languages of Native North America Mithun Marianne
Languages of Native North America Mithun Marianne This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. Part I of the book provides an overview of…
Specifikacia Languages of Native North America Mithun Marianne
Languages of Native North America Mithun Marianne
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. 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 languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory.
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. 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. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Prehistory of North America
Wildflowers of North America
Mammals of North America
Insects of North America
Insects of North America
Birds of North America
Mammals of North America
Moths of Western North America
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Beetles of Western North America
AMNH Birds of North America