California Indian Languages
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| Title: | California Indian Languages |
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| Description: | 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the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California's remarkable Indian languages. |
| Authors: | Victor Golla |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Language and languages, Linguistics, Indians of North America--California--Languages, Indians of North America |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California's remarkable Indian languages. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520266674 9780520389670 9780520949522 |
