California Indian languages / Victor Golla.

By:

Golla, Victor [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520949522
0520949528
1283331861
9781283331869

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: California Indian languages.DDC classification:

497.09794 23

LOC classification:

PM501.C2 G65 2011eb

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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.

Summary: 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 and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages--from the earliest vocabula.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages--from the earliest vocabula.

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