Theoretical Perspectives on Native American Languages
Published on 1. June 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
289 pages
978-0-88706-643-6 (ISBN)
Description
American linguistics has a tradition of finding unique and important insights from studies of Native American languages, often leading to innovations in current theories. At the same time, research on Native languages has been enhanced by the perspectives of modern theory. This book extends this tradition by presenting original analyses of aspects of six Native languages of Canada-Algonquin, Athapaskan, Eskimo, Iroquoian, Salishan, and Siouan.
Addressing problems relevant to phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, the authors make both descriptive and theoretical contributions by presenting data that has not been previously published or treated from the viewpoint of contemporary theory.
Addressing problems relevant to phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, the authors make both descriptive and theoretical contributions by presenting data that has not been previously published or treated from the viewpoint of contemporary theory.
Reviews / Votes
"This book represents an emerging area, research in which will provide important new insights into both the languages under study and the theories involved. It is a very timely book, and a good one. All linguists working on Amerindian languages should buy it, and I suspect many theoreticians will as well." - Elizabeth A. Cowper, University of TorontoMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88706-643-6 (9780887066436)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Donna B. Gerdts is in the Department of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Karin Michelson is in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University.
Content
Contributors
Preface
PART ONE: PROBLEMS IN PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION
The Complex Status of Complex Segments in Dakota
Patricia A. Shaw
Invisibility: Vowels without a Timing Slot in Mohawk
Karin Michelson
Underspecification and Derived-Only Rules in Sekani Phonology
Sharon Hargus
Vowel Initial Suffixes and Clitics in Slave
Keren D. Rice
Articulatory and Acoustic Correlates of Pharyngealization: Evidence from Athapaskan
Eung-Do Cook
PART TWO: THE MORPHO-SYNTAX OF COMPLEX VERBAL MORPHOLOGY
Agreement in Dogrib: Inflection or Cliticization?
Leslie Saxon
Disjoint Reference in a "Free Word Order" Language
Ann Grafstein
Argument Structure and the Morphology of the Ojibwa Verb
Glyne L. Piggott
The Morphosyntax of Eskimo Causatives
John T. Jensen and Alana Johns
The Nature of Polysynthesis in Algonquian and Eskimo
J. Peter Denny
Relational Parameters of Reflexives: The Halkomelem Evidence
Donna B. Gerdts
Index
Preface
PART ONE: PROBLEMS IN PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION
The Complex Status of Complex Segments in Dakota
Patricia A. Shaw
Invisibility: Vowels without a Timing Slot in Mohawk
Karin Michelson
Underspecification and Derived-Only Rules in Sekani Phonology
Sharon Hargus
Vowel Initial Suffixes and Clitics in Slave
Keren D. Rice
Articulatory and Acoustic Correlates of Pharyngealization: Evidence from Athapaskan
Eung-Do Cook
PART TWO: THE MORPHO-SYNTAX OF COMPLEX VERBAL MORPHOLOGY
Agreement in Dogrib: Inflection or Cliticization?
Leslie Saxon
Disjoint Reference in a "Free Word Order" Language
Ann Grafstein
Argument Structure and the Morphology of the Ojibwa Verb
Glyne L. Piggott
The Morphosyntax of Eskimo Causatives
John T. Jensen and Alana Johns
The Nature of Polysynthesis in Algonquian and Eskimo
J. Peter Denny
Relational Parameters of Reflexives: The Halkomelem Evidence
Donna B. Gerdts
Index