Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of contents VII
4. List of North American families, languages, and dialects XIII
5. Maps XLI
6. I Sounds and sound structure
7. 1 Acoustic phonetics 1
8. 2 Articulatory phonetics 39
9. 3 Tone 63
10. 4 Segmental phonology 89
11. 5 Prosodic morphology 109
12. 6 Word prosody 135
13. 7 Prosody beyond the word 155
14. II Words
15. 8 What is a word? 183
16. 9 Word classes 205
17. III Sentences
18. 10 Syntax within the clause 247
19. 11 Negatives 267
20. 12 Questions and requests in North American languages 283
21. 13 Information structure 305
22. 14 Clause-combining: Relative clauses 323
23. 15 Clause combining: Syntax of subordination and complementation 345
24. 16 Switch-reference and event cohesion 363
25. IV Discourse
26. 17 Verbal art 385
27. 18 Conversation structure 421
28. V Meaning
29. 19 Lexicalization and lexical meaning 453
30. 20 Lexicography 479
31. 21 Evidentiality 497
32. 22 Pluractionality and distributivity 511
33. 23 Mass and count nouns 527
34. 24 Sense of place: Space, landscape, and orientation 547
35. 25 A sense of time and world 577
36. 26 Pragmatics 599
37. VI Languages over space and time
38. 27 Languages as dynamic systems: How grammar can emerge 619
39. 28 Language contact and linguistic areas 647
40. 29 Language classification 669
41. 30 Archival-based sociolinguistic variation 689
42. 31 Community-based sociolinguistic variation 701