Biographical sketch of William Bright

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Foreword VII
4. Contents IX
5. Studies in language contact and language variation
6. The revenge of Huitzilopochtli: A tale from Crónica X in Spanish and Nahuatl 1
7. Spanish loanwords in Hopi 19
8. Discursive convergence with a Tewa evidential 25
9. Internal reconstruction in Aymara and Quechua 35
10. Otomí loans and creations 59
11. Sex differences in Irish Sign Language 67
12. Language contact: A case study of French Americans in California and Oregon 87
13. Yokuts and Miwok loanwords in Western Mono 101
14. Wasei eigo: English "loanwords" coined in Japan 123
15. A comparative study of English loanwords: Chicano Spanish and Mexican Spanish 141
16. On reconstructing past contact situations 153
17. Studies in language change, historical linguistics, and the history of linguistics
18. Methodology for determining deep genetic relationship in Amerindian languages 169
19. Linguistic contributions to Guatemalan prehistory 183
20. Surveys of languages of the world 193
21. The regression of sibilant harmony through the life of Barbarefio Chumash 221
22. Studies in text and discourse
23. Kaawosa plays a trick on a soldier: A Comanche coyote story 243
24. Linguistic nuance and the secret music of the text 257
25. Layers of meaning in a Wintu doctor song 271
26. A Karok narrative dictated by Phoebe Maddux to J. P. Harrington 281
27. Metaphor in Indian literature: Some thoughts on a taxonomy 299
28. Mesa Grande 'Iipay oratory and narrative 307
29. Cherokee stories of the supernatural 325
30. Referent tracking in oral Spanish 341
31. Transcreating culture and poetics 355
32. Studies in language structure
33. Indefinite pronouns in Kannada 369
34. The Witsuwit'en disjunct morphemes: clitics or affixes? 385
35. Phonetic studies of American Indian languages 413
36. Objecthood and specificity in Gujarati 425
37. The Garifuna gender system 443
38. Connected speech in Hindi: Implications for sound change 463
39. Incompatibilities among theories of Anglo-Saxon metrics 473
40. Bibliography of the works of William Bright 481
41. Biographical sketch of William Bright 501
42. Index of languages 505