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Author: Steven A. Jacobson
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A grammer of the Yupik or Yuit language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and in Siberia, designed for teaching both speakers and non-speakers.
Author: Vera Oovi Kaneshiro
Publisher: Alaska Native Language Center
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 940
ISBN-13: 9781555000974
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Additional compilers listed on t.p.: Vera Oovi Kaneshiro, Marie Oovi, Christopher Koonooka.
Author: Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 1712
ISBN-13: 311027857X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume is a major grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY). It is the culmination of the author's linguistic studies done in Alaska and elsewhere since around 1960, with assistance of many native speakers. Central Alaskan Yupik is currently the most vigorous of the nineteen remaining Native Alaskan languages. Descriptive in nature, extensive and deep, this grammar is of typological and of ethnological/anthropological interest. Given the severely endangered state of the language, this much of descriptive linguistic material is without comparison in the field.
Author: Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher: Utopia
Published: 1995-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781555000622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marianne Mithun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-06-07
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 1107392802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Alaska Native Language Center
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Louis-Jacques Dorais
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0773581766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers.
