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Tellings from Our Elders: Lushootseed syeyehub
Volume 1: Snohomish Texts
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David Beck
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With contributions by:
Martha Williams Lamont
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
An invaluable record of eighteen Lushootseed stories with interlinear grammatical analyses.
This invaluable analysis of eighteen Lushootseed traditional stories includes interlinear grammatical analyses.
Author / Editor information
David Beck is a professor of linguistics at the University of Alberta. Thom Hess was a professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria.
Reviews
Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, University of Victoria:
As excellent examples of a specifically linguistic form of textual presentation, these volumes definitely achieve what they have set out to do. As such, they are not books that one would pick up simply to read the stories. Nevertheless, it is possible to discern that the stories are rich in teachings, [and] that they are beautifully told …
As excellent examples of a specifically linguistic form of textual presentation, these volumes definitely achieve what they have set out to do. As such, they are not books that one would pick up simply to read the stories. Nevertheless, it is possible to discern that the stories are rich in teachings, [and] that they are beautifully told …
Crisca Bierwert, author of Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River: Coast Salish Figures of Power:
The scholarship is impeccable. The volume is essential to stimulating continued examination of the language and the challenges it raises for linguistic theory. It is also crucial as a resource to Lushootseed communities creating strategies for using the language.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 1, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9780774823579
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
616
Other:
7 photographs; 1 table
eBook ISBN:
9780774823579
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
