Language index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction xxi
6. Section 1. Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas
7. The diachrony of Ute case-marking 3
8. Language contact as an inhibitor of sound change 29
9. Stress in Yucatec Maya 53
10. The phonetic correlates of Southern Ute stress 85
11. Revisiting Tohono O’odham high vowels 107
12. Head-marking inflection and the architecture of grammatical theory 133
13. A case-study in grass roots development of web resources for language workers 175
14. Section 2. Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies
15. Language contact, shift, and endangerment – implications for policy
16. Spanish in contact with indigenous tongues 203
17. How can a language with 7 million speakers be endangered? 229
18. A documentary ethnography of a Blackfoot language course 257
19. Syncretic speech, linguistic ideology, and intertextuality 291
20. Racism in discourse – analyses of practice
21. Narrative discriminations in Central California’s indigenous narrative traditions 321
22. The voice of (White) reason 339
23. Double-voicing in the everyday language of Brazilian black activism 365
24. Uptake (un)limited 389
25. The silken cord 415
26. Afterword 425
27. Language index 431
28. Subject index 433