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Language Contact and Change in the Americas
Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun
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Edited by:
Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker
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English
Published/Copyright:
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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The state of the art Sarah G. Thomason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Part I North America: California
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Language Contact in Round Valley, California Uldis Balodis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Carmen Dagostino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Neil Alexander Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Timothy P. Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Part II North America: Athabaskan, Iroquoian, and Uto-Aztecan
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Ahtna riverine directionals in a cardinal world Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Keren Rice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Clifford Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Megan Lukaniec and Wallace Chafe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Multiple grammaticalization of ‘do’, ‘be’, ‘have’, and ‘go’ in Ute T. Givón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Part III Northern Mexico, Mesoamerica, and South America
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Lyle Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Changes due to Spanish contact Colette Grinevald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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A case study from north-west Amazonia Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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The interaction of language contact and internallymotivated change in Quechua Daniel J. Hintz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Diane M. Hintz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Part IV The Americas and beyond
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Bernard Comrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Matthias Pache, Søren Wichmann and Mikhail Zhivlov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 21, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9789027267337
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
416
eBook ISBN:
9789027267337
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;
