ilość książek w kategorii: 552
Hispanisation: The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas
ISBN: 9783110197938 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially in Latin America. This volume gives the reader a better idea of the range of contact constellations in which Spanish functions as the donor language. Moreover, the contributions to this collection of articles demonstrate that it is not only possible to compare the contact-induced processes in the (Hispanised) languages of Austronesia and the...
Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The num...
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Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
ISBN: 9780781808620 / Angielski / Miękka / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each entry includes the illustrated glyph, its phonetic transcription, Mayan equivalent, part of speech, and meaning. About the Author John Montgomery was an illustrator, epigrapher, writer, and PhD candidate in the field of Pre-Columbian Art at the University of New Mexico. He taught art history at the South-western Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque. A long and varied experience in Central...
This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, compr...
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128,63 zł |
The Languages of Native North America
ISBN: 9780521298759 / Angielski / Miękka / 796 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, a catalog of the languages that details their locations, genetic affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and lists published material on them.
This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic ...
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341,46 zł |
Narrative, Literacy and Face in Interethnic Communication
ISBN: 9780893910860 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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336,98 zł |
Chimariko Grammar: Areal and Typological Perspectivevolume 142
ISBN: 9780520098756 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.
The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 19...
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228,46 zł |
Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics
ISBN: 9780826348012 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of the nearly 300,000 people who identified themselves as Navajo in the 2000 US Census, 178,014 identified themselves as speakers of Navajo. Poetry written and performed in both Navajo and English, continues to emerge as an important voice for Navajos. This study investigates the devices found in Navajo written and oral poetic traditions.
Of the nearly 300,000 people who identified themselves as Navajo in the 2000 US Census, 178,014 identified themselves as speakers of Navajo. Poetry wr...
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216,43 zł |
Comanche Vocabulary: Trilingual Edition
ISBN: 9780292727830 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861-1864 by Manuel Garcia Rejon is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867. It preserves words and concepts that have since changed or even disappeared from the language, thus offering a unique historical window on earlier Comanche culture. This translation adds the English equivalents to the original Spanish-Comanche list of 857 words, as well as a Comanche-English vocabulary and comparisons with later Comanche word lists.... The Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861-1864 by Manuel Garcia Rejon is by far the most extensive Comanche wo... |
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86,60 zł |
Powwows, Fat Cats, and Other Indian Tales
ISBN: 9780980010268 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prior to his death in 2008, Two-Rivers was an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) activist and writer who used words, not violence, to promote civil rights for all oppressed people. This is his only collection of poetry in print, and contains an Afterword of biographical and critical overviews of this seminal civil rights-era activist.
Prior to his death in 2008, Two-Rivers was an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) activist and writer who used words, not violence, to promote civil rights for all o...
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57,72 zł |
The Arawak Language of Guiana
ISBN: 9781108007689 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A description of the Arawak language of Guyana and Suriname, covering vocabulary, grammar and phonetics.
A description of the Arawak language of Guyana and Suriname, covering vocabulary, grammar and phonetics.
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137,57 zł |
Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England
ISBN: 9780982046760 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In New England, American Indian people have left their ancient footprints in many of the current names for mountains, rivers, lakes, animals, fish, cities, towns, and byways. The first English settlers, who put most of the American Indian words on the map, borrowed names from local tribes. In the process, they often misheard, mispronounced, or misreported what they heard - that is how the place Wequapaugset was given as Boxet or how Musquompskut became Swampscott. In many cases the Indian terms have changed so much over time that linguists are unable to recognize the original spelling and...
In New England, American Indian people have left their ancient footprints in many of the current names for mountains, rivers, lakes, animals, fish, ci...
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120,24 zł |
Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec
ISBN: 9789048153459 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BACKGROUND This book focuses on two major issues - vowel glottalization and nasalization - in the phonology and phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec (henceforth CM). CM is an Otomanguean language currently spoken by roughly 2000 people (Small 1990) in the village of San Juan Coatzospan, which is located in the Sierra Mazateca of northern Oaxaca, Mexico.' Though Mixtec constitutes a major branch of the Otomanguean family, the so-called dialects are most appropriately viewed as distinct languages. According to Josserand (1982), there are at least 22 mutually unintelligible varieties of Mixtec. For...
BACKGROUND This book focuses on two major issues - vowel glottalization and nasalization - in the phonology and phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec (hencef...
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585,00 zł |
Selis Nyohnuntn/Medicine for the Salish Language: English to Salish Translation Dictionary
ISBN: 9781934594063 / Angielski / Twarda / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Distributed on behalf of the Salish Kootenai College PressMedicine for the Salish Language includes conjugations of most Salish verbs and sample sentences providing context for the use of many words. A short introduction to Salish language grammar is also included. Compiled by Tachini Pete, this dictionary is used for language revitalization work on the reservation."
Distributed on behalf of the Salish Kootenai College PressMedicine for the Salish Language includes conjugations of most Salish verbs an...
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203,89 zł |
California Indian Languages
ISBN: 9780520266674 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spok...
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450,70 zł |
A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)
ISBN: 9780803211063 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several hundred members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages of the southern United States.Intended for scholars, students, and Creek instructors, this reference grammar describes all the major morphological and syntactic patterns in the language. Special attention is given to pitch accent and tone, active agreement, locative prefixes, tense, aspect, and...
Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several...
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367,00 zł |
Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions
ISBN: 9780803216457 / Angielski / Twarda / 445 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this highly nuanced study of West Greenlandic, linguist Anna Berge examines how the speaker s role affects syntactic structures within discourse. Also included are transcripts of conversations with fluent Native speakers, providing a practical context in which to examine these grammatical questions.This study was the winner of the prestigious Mary R. Haas Award, presented annually by the Society for the Study of the...
West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of centr...
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341,51 zł |
Hokan Studies: Papers from the First Conference on Hokan Languages, Held in San Diego, California, April 23-25, 1970
ISBN: 9789027931245 / Angielski / Twarda / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Crossing Aspectual Frontiers: Emergence, Evolution, and Interwoven Semantic Domains in South Conchucos Quechua Discoursevolume 146
ISBN: 9780520098855 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a comprehensive account of the grammatical expression of aspect and related semantic domains in South Conchucos Quechua, a language of central Peru. Based on naturally-occurring speech, the functional-typological approach applied here integrates the description of the synchronic system in South Conchucos with an investigation of cognitive and communicative forces that have shaped aspect and related categories across the language family.
This book presents a comprehensive account of the grammatical expression of aspect and related semantic domains in South Conchucos Quechua, a language...
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The Indigenous Languages of South America : A Comprehensive Guide
ISBN: 9783110255133 / Angielski / Twarda / 761 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpt Open publication The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented...
Excerpt Open publication The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to t...
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1394,90 zł |
Chickasaw
ISBN: 9780806126876 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chickasaws are one of the Five Tribes removed by the U.S. government to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) more than 150 years ago from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Most speakers of the Chickasaw language now live in the Chickasaw Nation in south-central Oklahoma. Although there are fewer than one hundred fluent speakers today, the tribe has a language program designed to revitalize and perpetuate the language.
This first scholarly dictionary of the Chickasaw language contains a Chickasaw-English section with approximately 12,000 main entries, secondary entries, and... The Chickasaws are one of the Five Tribes removed by the U.S. government to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) more than 150 years ago from their homelan...
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Wishram Texts & Ethnography
ISBN: 9783110123289 / Angielski / Twarda / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language...
The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published ...
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784,41 zł |