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Language Contact and Change in the Americas
Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun
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Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker
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English
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2016
About this book
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially with regard to contact phenomena in languages of North America, Meso-America and South America. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics, including sound change, morphosyntactic change, lexical semantics, grammaticalization, language endangerment, and discourse-pragmatic change. With chapters from distinguished scholars and talented newcomers alike, this book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in internally- and externally-motivated language change.
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Nora C. England, The University of Texas at Austin:
This book starts in California, as is fitting for a book in honor of Marianne Mithun, and then works its way outward, reflecting the state of knowledge about language contact and change in the Americas, where considerably more is known about North America but where South America offers exciting new areas for research in this field. The book is a just tribute to one of the most important contemporary scholars of American indigenous languages, and to someone for whom language contact and change have been central motifs.
This book starts in California, as is fitting for a book in honor of Marianne Mithun, and then works its way outward, reflecting the state of knowledge about language contact and change in the Americas, where considerably more is known about North America but where South America offers exciting new areas for research in this field. The book is a just tribute to one of the most important contemporary scholars of American indigenous languages, and to someone for whom language contact and change have been central motifs.
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Foreword
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Language contact and change in the Americas
1 - Part I North America: California
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Yuki, Pomoan, Wintun, and Athabaskan
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The role of passives in the formation of hierarchical systems in Northern California
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Assessing the effects of language contact on Northeastern Pomo
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Synchronic and diachronic accounts of phonological features in Central Chumash languages
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Contact and semantic shift in extreme language endangerment
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“Excorporation” in a Dene (Athabaskan) language
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Contact and change in Oneida
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Huron/Wendat interactions with the Seneca language
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The usual suspects
219 - Part III Northern Mexico, Mesoamerica, and South America
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Language documentation and historical linguistics
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The Jakaltek Popti’ noun classifier system
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Language contact and word structure
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Auxiliation and typological shift
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Discourse pattern replication in South Conchucos Quechua and Andean Spanish
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Measuring language typicality, with special reference to the Americas
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Words for ‘dog’ as a diagnostic of language contact in the Americas
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Index
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April 21, 2016
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9789027267337
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416
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Keywords for this book
Historical linguistics; Languages of North America; Languages of South America; Contact Linguistics; Theoretical linguistics
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
