Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Language contact and change in the Americas 1
5. Part I North America: California
6. Yuki, Pomoan, Wintun, and Athabaskan 17
7. The role of passives in the formation of hierarchical systems in Northern California 33
8. Assessing the effects of language contact on Northeastern Pomo 67
9. Synchronic and diachronic accounts of phonological features in Central Chumash languages 91
10. Part II North America: Athabaskan, Iroquoian, and Uto-Aztecan
11. Contact and semantic shift in extreme language endangerment 107
12. “Excorporation” in a Dene (Athabaskan) language 139
13. Contact and change in Oneida 167
14. Huron/Wendat interactions with the Seneca language 189
15. The usual suspects 219
16. Part III Northern Mexico, Mesoamerica, and South America
17. Language documentation and historical linguistics 249
18. The Jakaltek Popti’ noun classifier system 273
19. Language contact and word structure 297
20. Auxiliation and typological shift 315
21. Discourse pattern replication in South Conchucos Quechua and Andean Spanish 339
22. Part IV The Americas and beyond
23. Measuring language typicality, with special reference to the Americas 365
24. Words for ‘dog’ as a diagnostic of language contact in the Americas 385
25. Index 411