Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Frontispiece: Edward Sapir, about 1915 6
3. Preface 13
4. Introduction to Volumes V and VI 15
5. SECTION ONE: TYPOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION
6. Introduction 21
7. The Problem of Noun Incorporation in American Indian Languages (1911) 27
8. Linguistic Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1917) 61
9. Review of C. C. Uhlenbeck, “Het passieve karakter van het verbum transitivum of van het verbum actionis in talen van Noord-Amerika” (1917) 69
10. Review of C. C. Uhlenbeck, “Het identificeerend karakter der possessieve flexie in talen van Noord-Amerika” (1917) 75
11. Materials Relating to Sapir's Classification of North American Indian Languages (1920) 81
12. A Bird's-eye View of American Languages North of Mexico (1912) 93
13. Central and North American Languages (1929) 95
14. Glottalized Continuants in Navaho, Nootka, and Kwakiutl (with a Note on Indo-European) (1938) 105
15. American Indian Grammatical Categories (1938) 133
16. The Relation of American Indian Linguistics to General Linguistics (1947) 143
17. SECTION TWO: PHONETIC ORTHOGRAPHY
18. Introduction 149
19. Report of the Committee on Phonetic Transcription of Indian Languages (1916) 151
20. Some Orthographic Recommendations (1934) 171
21. SECTION THREE: HOKAN LANGUAGES
22. Introduction 177
23. Characteristic Traits of the Yana Language of California (1909) 183
24. The Chimariko Indians and Language (1911) 185
25. The Position of Yana in the Hokan Stock (1918) 189
26. The Status of Washo (1917) 223
27. Dr. Sapir's Data on Washo and Hokan (1919) 225
28. The Hokan and Coahuiltecan Languages (1920) 231
29. A Note on the First Person Plural in Chimariko (1920) 245
30. The Language of the Salinan Indians (1920) 251
31. A Supplementary Note on Salinan and Washo (1921) 257
32. The Hokan Affinity of Subtiaba in Nicaragua (1925) 263
33. Male and Female Forms of Speech in Yana (1929) 335
34. SECTION FOUR: UTO-AZTECAN LANGUAGES
35. Introduction 345
36. Some Fundamental Characteristics of the Ute Language (1910) 347
37. Southern Paiute and Nahuatl, a Study in Uto-Aztekan (1913, 1914-1919) 351
38. SECTION FIVE: ALGONKIAN AND RITWAN
39. Introduction 447
40. Algonkin p and s in Cheyenne (1913) 451
41. Wiyot and Yurok, Algonkin Languages of California (1913) 453
42. Algonkin Languages of California: A Reply (1915) 485
43. The Algonkin Affinity of Yurok and Wiyot Kinship Terms (1923) 491
44. The Owl Sacred Pack of the Fox Indians (1923) 531
45. Sapir on Arapaho (1946) 535
46. APPENDIX
47. Noun Incorporation in American Languages (1910) 541
48. Incorporation as a Linguistic Process (1911) 547
49. Two Alleged Algonquian Languages of California (1914) 553
50. Phonetic Key 563
51. References 573