Handbook of American Indian Languages
Title | Handbook of American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Boas |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 517 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1108063438 |
Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee.
Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast
Title | Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast PDF eBook |
Author | Smithsonian Institution |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | 1068 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
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Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples in Siberia, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.
Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages
Title | Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Boas |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780803250178 |
Two major anthropological works study the roots, structure, and classification of Indian languages.
Handbook of North American Indians: Plains
Title | Handbook of North American Indians: Plains PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Eskimos |
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Handbook of North American Indians: Languages
Title | Handbook of North American Indians: Languages PDF eBook |
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Release | 1984 |
Genre | Eskimos |
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Handbook of North American Indians
Title | Handbook of North American Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Ives Goddard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 957 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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American Indian Languages
Title | American Indian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 527 |
Release | 2000-09-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195349830 |
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.