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Kolusuwakonol: Passamaquoddy-Maliseet & English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780920114742 / Not Applicable / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,53 zł |
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Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook
ISBN: 9780924171413 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook; New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings; and A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings. This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and... This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook<... |
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179,34 zł |
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New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues
ISBN: 9780973892475 / Wielojęzykowe / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The original edition of this important grammar of the Abenaki language was first published in 1884 by Joseph Laurent (Sozap Lol Kizitgw), chief of the Indian village of St. Francis, P.Q., Canada. Its full original title was "New familiar Abenakis and English dialogues, the first vocabulary ever published in the Abenakis language, comprising: the Abenakis alphabet, the key to the pronunciation and many grammatical explanations, also synoptical illustrations showing the numerous modifications of the Abenakis verb, &c.: to which is added the etymology of Indian names of certain localities,...
The original edition of this important grammar of the Abenaki language was first published in 1884 by Joseph Laurent (Sozap Lol Kizitgw), chief of the...
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97,49 zł |
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First Reading Book in the Micmac Language
ISBN: 9780973892482 / Wielojęzykowe / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,73 zł |
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Mixed Categories: Nominalizations in Quechua
ISBN: 9781556080500 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our book on nominalizations in Quechua summarizes the work we have carried out on. this language over the last ten years. We are happy to offer it as a contribution to linguistic theory. For their interest, friendship and patience, we thank the numerous Quechua speakers who gave us access to their language, making it possible for us to reach an understanding of it which led us to writing this book. More specifically we would like to thank our Cuzco informants who contributed directly in the estab lishment of the data base on which our analyses are built: Angelica and Justo Leon Baca, Evaristo...
Our book on nominalizations in Quechua summarizes the work we have carried out on. this language over the last ten years. We are happy to offer it as ...
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605,23 zł |
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A Comparative Study of Lake-Iroquoian Accent
ISBN: 9781556080548 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is based on my 1983 doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, although it represents an extensive revision and reorganization of that work. Large amounts of material that were not contained in the original have been added, and parts that address theoretical issues that, at least for the time being, have receded into the background, have been omitted. Many colleagues and friends have contributed to my sustained fascina- tion with as well as my understanding of lroquoian linguistics. First of all, I am grateful to the Iroquois who have...
This work is based on my 1983 doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, although it represents an extens...
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403,47 zł |
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Odawa Language and Legends: Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima
ISBN: 9781599269207 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima share many similarities, even though they lived in different centuries. Both were Odawa, and they both cared about the customs and traditions of their people. Andrew J. Blackbird lived in Little Traverse, now Harbor Springs, Michigan, while Ray Kiogima lives there now. Both wrote dictionaries and grammars for their people, while also recounting legends. In Odawa Language and Legends: Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima, Blackbird's original 1887 book is followed by Kiogima's Odawa dictionary, grammar, translations of taped legends, and his own...
Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima share many similarities, even though they lived in different centuries. Both were Odawa, and they both cared a...
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84,50 zł |
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Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community
ISBN: 9783110176513 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the early 1970s, the Inuit of Arctic Quebec have struggled to survive economically and culturally in a rapidly changing northern environment. The promotion and maintenance of Inuktitut, their native language, through language policy and Inuit control over institutions, have played a major role in this struggle. Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic Quebec community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French, and English - are spoken. It examines the role that dominant and minority... Since the early 1970s, the Inuit of Arctic Quebec have struggled to survive economically and culturally in a rapidly changing northern environment.... |
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596,10 zł |
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Handbook of the Seneca Language
ISBN: 9781897367131 / Iroquoian / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Seneca language is a member of the Iroquoian language family. Seneca is a seriously endangered language spoken in upper New York State and Southern Ontario. This book consists of 3 parts. Section I, on orthography, describes a way of writing Seneca words consistently and without omitting features that are significant. Various spelling systems have been used, and are being used, for the writing of Seneca by missionaries, anthropologists, and the speakers of the language themselves. Section II, on grammar, is concerned with the structure of Seneca words. Section III is a brief glossary of...
The Seneca language is a member of the Iroquoian language family. Seneca is a seriously endangered language spoken in upper New York State and Souther...
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81,35 zł |
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A Grammar of Mosetén
ISBN: 9783110183405 / Angielski / Twarda / 535 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moseten belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining lowland region. This book provides a grammatical description of Moseten in the form of a descriptive reference grammar. It is based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Bolivia and is intended to be comprehensive and aimed at linguists from all backgrounds. Belonging to an unclassified language family, Moseten is of special interest to typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and South Americanists. The grammar is...
Moseten belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and th...
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975,39 zł |
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Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9783110185973 / Angielski / Twarda / 393 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the reversing language shift (RLS) theory in the Mexican scenario from various viewpoints: The sociohistorical perspective delves into the dynamics of power that emerged in the Mexican colony as a result of the presence of Spanish. It examines the processes of external and internal Indianization affecting the early European protagonists and the varied dimensions of language shift and maintenance of the Mexican colonial period. The Mexican case sheds light upon language contact from the time in which Western civilization came into contact with the Mesoamerican peoples, for...
This volume explores the reversing language shift (RLS) theory in the Mexican scenario from various viewpoints: The sociohistorical perspective delves...
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979,65 zł |
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A Grammar of Urarina [With CD]
ISBN: 9783110190205 / Angielski / Twarda / 961 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urarina is an endangered language spoken by less than 3,000 people in the rainforests of North-western Peru and is not related to any other language family in the area. This book provides a comprehensive description of Urarina grammar covering all areas of the language. Features not commonly found in other languages include the word order (object-verb-subject) and a fascinating array of morphological forms. A Grammar of Urarina is based on the framework of basic linguistic theory, which will be accessible to scholars from a wide range of backgrounds. The book fills a gap not only for studies...
Urarina is an endangered language spoken by less than 3,000 people in the rainforests of North-western Peru and is not related to any other language f...
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1149,80 zł |
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Coming to Terms with Place- Toward a Topographic Technique of Language Use
ISBN: 9783836426329 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architects and urban planners have long discussed how the built
environment in many western cities suffers from a "lack of place." Particularly in the US, this issue has become heated as people have reconsidered the exurban malaise weve built as our primary habitat. Coming to Terms with Place explores the rhetorical grounds for why this is happening and looks forward to a technique that reconsiders our built environment in terms of the language we use to describe and inscribe it. Believing "experience of place" is intrinsically tied into our choice of language, it follows that a concern for... Architects and urban planners have long discussed how the built environment in many western cities suffers from a "lack of place." Particularly |
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327,12 zł |
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Choctaw Verb Agreement and Universal Grammar
ISBN: 9789027720658 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. and 1982 and from various speakers in Oklahoma during two extended visits to Broken Bow in 1980. I lX PREFACE x wishtothankthespeakerswhohelpedmebysharingtheirlanguage andencouragingmystudies.MyworkonChoctawwassupportedin partbyfundsfrom theNationalScienceFoundation(throughgrant numberBNS78-17498totheUniversityofCalifornia, SanDiego), theAmericanPhilosophicalSociety(throughaPhillipsFundgrant), andtheDepartmentofLinguisticsatUCSD
and 1982 and from various speakers in Oklahoma during two extended visits to Broken Bow in 1980. I lX PREFACE x wishtothankthespeakerswhohelpedmebysha...
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403,47 zł |
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The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts Told by Angeline Williams
ISBN: 9780887551482 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Dog's Children" is a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield s linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by Bloomfield. Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids"
"The Dog's Children" is a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield s linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National An...
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155,77 zł |
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Paitarkiutenka / My Legacy to You
ISBN: 9780295987804 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yup'ik elders of southwest Alaska recall, "Our ancestors were never heavy with a tool kit." They carried in their minds what they needed to live rich lives in the harsh environment of the Bering Sea coast. Frank Andrew, Sr. (1917-2006), was one of the few elders to bring this knowledge into the twenty-first century. Not only did Frank Andrew possess knowledge and wisdom--he shared it. For five years before his death he worked tirelessly with Yup'ik translators Alice Rearden and Marie Meade and anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan to document his knowledge of life on the Bering Sea... Yup'ik elders of southwest Alaska recall, "Our ancestors were never heavy with a tool kit." They carried in their minds what they needed to live ri... |
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136,25 zł |
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A Carib Grammar and Dictionary
ISBN: 9780978170769 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Carib language, sometimes called Galibi or True Carib, is spoken by some 7,000 people living in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, and Brazil. This resource contains a detailed description of Carib grammar and the most extensive inventory of Carib lexemes and affixes so far. (Foreign Language-Dictionaries/Phrasebooks)
The Carib language, sometimes called Galibi or True Carib, is spoken by some 7,000 people living in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, and Br...
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171,95 zł |
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Nez Perce Dictionary: Volume 122
ISBN: 9780520097636 / Angielski / Twarda / 1304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, which is spoken in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, the author illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature; the dictionary is thus also a concordance. In addition, the author retranscribes and incorporates words from earlier publications, when recognized by today's Nez Perce speakers. The dictionary includes an English-Nez Perce index, appendixes listing phonosymbolic words and Nez Perce animal and plant names, and illustrations from Nez Perce life.
In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, which is spoken in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, the author illustrates how each word is ...
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235,70 zł |
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Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar and Place Names
ISBN: 9781897367186 / Wielojęzykowe / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reprint of Henry Lorne Masta's important work on the Abenaki language, first published in 1932. Abenaki is a member of the Algonquian family and is spoken in Quebec and neighbouring US states. There are few native speakers, but there is considerable interest in keeping the language alive.
This is a reprint of Henry Lorne Masta's important work on the Abenaki language, first published in 1932. Abenaki is a member of the Algonquian family...
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97,49 zł |
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American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts
ISBN: 9780816521395 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico, while drawing on a wide range of other examples found from Canada to the Andes. It introduces...
This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian lan...
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165,50 zł |
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