Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (380 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520266676
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0520949528
,
1283331861
,
9780520266674
,
9780520949522
,
9781283331869
Inhalt:
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basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages--from the earliest vocabula
Inhalt:
pt. 1. Defining California as a sociolinguistic area -- pt. 2. History of study. Before linguistics ; Linguistic scholarship -- pt. 3. Languages and language families. Algic languages ; Athabaskan (Na-Dene) languages ; Hokan languages ; Penutian languages ; Uto-Aztecan languages ; Languages of uncertain affiliation -- pt. 4. Typological and areal features : California as a linguistic area. Phonology ; Grammar ; Linguistic culture -- pt. 5. Linguistic prehistory
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Golla, Victor California Indian languages Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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