The Persistence of Language

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Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill

Shannon T. Bischoff Deborah Cole Amy V. Fountain Mizuki Miyashita(Editor)

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The Persistence of Language
Editorial page
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Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
1. Interdisciplinary conversations: Jane's many friends
2. The universal and the particular: Jane's human voices
3. Responsibility in narrative: Jane's discourses
References
Introduction
1. Section 1 - Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas
2. Section 2 - Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies
2.1 Language contact, shift, and endangerment - implications for policy
2.2 Racism in (mediatized) discourse - analyses of practice
3. Closing
References
The diachrony of Ute Case-Marking
1. Orientation
2. Subject, object and genitive
2.1 Current state
2.2 Traces of the oblique suffix -y/-i
2.2.1 Object or genitive nouns
2.2.2 Demonstratives and pronouns
2.2.3 Nominalized clauses
2.2.4 The 'epenthetic' suffix -y
2.3 The oblique suffix -a
2.3.1 The suffix -a as a genitive marker
2.3.2 The suffix -a as object marker
2.4 The object suffix -ku
2.5 Interim summary
2.6 Object and genitive: The hidden footprints of nominalization
2.7 Reconstruction
2.7.1 The suffixes -a and -y
2.7.2 The demise of the suffix -y in Ute
2.7.3 The object suffix -ku
3. Post-positions and indirect objects
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Large-size locative post-positions
3.2.1 Noun-derived post-positions
3.2.2 Verb-derived post-positions
3.2.3 Monosyllabic de-verbal post-positions
3.2.4 The older locative post-positions -na, -mi and -ma
4. Discussion
References
Language contact as an inhibitor of sound change:
1. Introduction
2. The historical source of Hare [n] and [r]
3. Synchronic patterning of historical nasals
4. An historical note: Timing of the shift to /r/
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Language at the time of Petitot
4.3 The problem
4.4 Possible accounts
5. Other diachronic changes: Restructuring and invariant nasals
6. Nasals in Gwich'in
7. Contact between the Hare and the Gwich'in
8. Summary
References
Stress in Yucatec Maya
1. Introduction
2. Syncretism in Language
3. Stress and Accent in Language
4. Lexical stress vs. metrical stress
5. Syntagmatic nature of stress
6. Grouping properties of stress
7. Foot structure in YM
8. Overview of Yucatec phonology
9. Methodology
10. Subjects
11. Elicitation Materials
12. Tasks
13. Loan Word Usage
14. The syncretic continuum in YM
15. Pitch in YM Syncretic Shifts
16. Intensity in YM syncretic shifts
17. Length in YM syncretic shifts
18. Testing the predictions
19. Conclusion and Implications for Further Study
References
The phonetic correlates of Southern Ute stress
1. Introduction
1.1 The Southern Ute tribe
1.2 Language information
1.2.1 Southern Ute language status
1.2.2 Southern Ute Consonants
1.2.3 Southern Ute Vowels
2. Phonetic correlates of stress
2.1 Descriptive research on Ute stress
3. Methods
3.1 Phonetic analysis
3.1.1 Duration
3.1.2 Pitch
4. Conclusion
References
Revisiting Tohono O'odham high vowels
1. Introduction
2. The Tohono O'odham vowel and consonant inventory
3. Retroflex consonants and the front vowel
4. Dialect variation in vowel clusters
5. Total vowel assimilation in connected speech
6. High vowels and coronal consonants
7. Conclusion
References
Head-marking inflection and the architecture of grammatical theory
1. Introduction
1.1 Background: Reduplication and compounding in the literature
2. Reduplication and noun incorporation in Hiaki
2.1 Reduplication in Hiaki
2.2 Noun incorporation in Hiaki
2.3 Hiaki NI as detransitivizing?
3. Reduplication with noun incorporation in Hiaki
3.1 Reduplication and verb-affix hybrids
3.2 Reduplication and verbal affixes
3.3 Word-internal reduplication in pseudo-compounds
3.4 Interim conclusion: Head-marking
4. Implications for standard theoretical architectures
4.1 Weak Lexicalist architectures
4.1.1 Productivity
4.1.2 Compositionality
4.1.3 Interim conclusion for weakly lexicalist frameworks
4.2 Syntacticocentric architectures: Baker (1988) on noun incorporation
4.3 Strong Lexicalist architectures: DiSciullo & Williams (1987)
4.3.1 Interim conclusion for standard architectures
5. Architectural accommodations
5.1 Word-based approaches: Stump (2001) and PFM
5.2 Syntacticocentric approaches: Distributed Morphology
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
A case-study in grass roots development of web resources for language workers:
1. Introduction
2. What makes a project a 'grass roots' development effort?
3. What makes a project an 'archive'?
4. A case study in grass roots archiving: The Coeur d'Alene Archive and Online Language Resources (CAOLR)
4.1 Background: The Coeur d 'Alene Language and Legacy Materials and the Content of the CAOLR
4.2 The Coeur d'Alene Archive and Online Language Resources Project and its Relation to Grass-Roots Archiving
4.3 Notes on the development of the CAOLR
4.4 Building the CAOLR.
5. Conclusion
References
Spanish in contact with indigenous tongues
1. Introduction
2. Spanish in contact with indigenous languages
2.1 Linguistic characteristics of Spanish in contact with Nahuatl
2.1.1 Phonology
2.1.2 Morphosyntax
2.1.3 Lexicon
2.2 Some linguistic characteristics of Spanish in contact with Maya
3. Investigating clitics in Spanish
4. Building strategies for the defense of endangered languages
5. Concluding remarks
References
Websites
Appendix
Main Characteristics of Nahuas' Spanish
How can a language with 7 million speakers be endangered?
1. Introduction
2. Gikuyu in colonial and post-Independence language policies
3. Gikuyu
4. The need for language planning
5. Young people
6. Young people and the events of the 2007 presidential election
7. Conclusion
Appendix A: Transcription conventions
References
A documentary ethnography of a Blackfoot language course
1. Introduction
2. Ethnography: The geographic, historical and ideological contexts for linguistic diversity in Blackfoot
2.1 Historical separation of land, language, and people
2.2 Ongoing effects of geographic separation on language
2.3 Linguistic diversity Blackfoot
2.4 Varying awareness of linguistic diversity in Blackfoot and varying language ideologies
3. Locally emergent interactional norms 1: Roles and resources
3.1 Initiating collaboration and inhabiting reciprocal roles
3.2 Learning about teaching languages
3.3 Finding unequal distributions of resources
4. Locally emergent interactional norms 2: Awareness and evaluation
4.1 Encountering other awarenesses of Blackfoot diversity in the classroom
4.2 Teaching and evaluating Blackfoot diversity
5. Clarifying the ideological patterns of variation and standard
5.1 Modeling patterns of language ideological variation and emergence (LIVE)
5.2 Language ideological patterns and participant affiliations
5.3 Conclusions and implications
6. Ethnographic coda: Practical heteroglossia
References
Syncretic speech, linguistic ideology, and intertextuality
1. Introduction: Writing about syncretic speech in Central Mexico
2. The chapter
3. Presentation de libro
4. Purist ideologies and syncretic speech
5. Intertextuality and the participants.
6. Intertextual conversations
7. Audience reception
8. On meta-discursive practices, translation and publication
9.0 Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Narrative discriminations in Central California's indigenous narrative traditions
1. Western Mono: Hegemonic erasure and counter hegemonic responses
2. Brief sketches of two salvage era researchers of indigenous California: Anna Hadwick Gayton (1899-1977) and Stanley Newman (1905-1984)
3. Relativism or covert racism: The case for relativism
4. (Artless) repetition
5. The lack of explication
6. Relativism or covert racism: The case for covert racism
7. Concluding remarks
References
The voice of (White) Reason
1. From "Red" to "Dead:" Indians in "White" public space
2. And the Indian says to the White man: A note on method
3. "It's so easy a [blank] could do it": Modern-primitive iterability
4. "The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy!": Primitive-incompetent motif
5. The "Arab" qua "Indian" Problem: Laminations of difference
6. Conclusion: Deniability, accountability, and covert racist discourse
Acknowledgements
References
Double-voicing in the everyday language of Brazilian black activism
1. Introduction
2. Debating racial politics in Brazil
3. Negro vs. Preto: Double-voicing blackness
4. Escravo vs. escravizado: What's in a word?
5. North American voices in Brazil?
6. Conclusion
Appendix
References
Uptake (un)limited:
1. Introduction
2. Background: (Semiotic) register-shifting, role alignment, and construable contexts.
3. Clinton's black preaching style and reconstructing congregational uptake
3.1 Black preaching style
3.2. Method 1: Listening to Clinton's and the congregation's co-performance ethnographically
3.3 Method 2: Listening to congregational uptake quantitatively
3.4 Summary
4. The congregation's indurable response under conditions of mediatization.
4.1 Method
4.2 Uptake preserved
4.3 Uptake transformed
4.4 Summary
5. When the ideology of personalism fails, authentic referentialism comes to its defense.
6. Implications and conclusions
Appendix
References
The Silken Cord
1. Introduction: Symbols of threat and their meaning
1.1 What do tangible things mean, and for whom do they hold meaning?
1.2 Latino Lynching
2. Why these events are so little known - Language orthodoxy and official English
3. English-only movements and their connection to Latino lynching
References
Afterword
Reference
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