General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics: In Remembrance of Stanley Newman

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General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics

In Remembrance of Stanley Newman

Edited by: Mary Ritchie Key and Henry M. Hoenigswald

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1989

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Volume 55 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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Linguistics and Semiotics Other Languages of Europe European Languages, other
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines General Linguistics
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Linguistics, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
A. The History of Linguistics and Stanley Newman's Six Decades
Prague Stanley S. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
How I discovered linguistics Stanley S. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
SONGS FOR A WINDY DAY Stanley S. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Bibliography of Stanley S. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
Inventory of Stanley Newman's linguistic materials Mary Ritchie Key Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
"Singularly like our ideal of a scientist" Michael Silverstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Obituary Stanley S. Newman (1905-1984) Philip Bock and Harry Basehart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Stanley Newman and the Sapir school of linguistics Regna Darnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Sapir's panoramic view (1926) of recent advances in linguistics Yakov Malkiel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
B. American Indian Studies
Institutional language maintenance resources of American Indians in the early 1980s Joshua A. Fishman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Spanish loans in Wikchamni Geoffrey Gamble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Some principles of Alaskan Athabaskan toponymic knowledge James Kari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Deified mind among the Keresan Pueblos Jay Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Creek curing in academe Willard Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
C. Grammar and Discourse
On the unit of paragraph analysis in formal monologue discourse Betty Lou Dubois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Object agreement in the Halkomelem Salish Passive: a morphological explanation Donna B. Gerdts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Argument obviation and switch-reference in Hopi LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne and Ken Hale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Some agent hierarchies in Upper Chehalis M. Dale Kinkade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Vowel ablaut and its functions in Yuman Margaret Langdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Aspect in Isthmus Zapotee Velma B. Pickett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
A later view of Gitksan syntax Bruce Rigsby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
The Kuna verb: a study in the interplay of grammar, discourse, and style Joel Sherzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
D. Word Formation
Navajo stem variation Herbert Laudar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Lexical morphemes in Bella Coola Ross Saunders and Philip W. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Lexical elaboration in Navajo Robert W. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
E. Phonology
Loss of contrast between voiced and voiceless alveolar flapped stops in American English J. Donald Bowen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Some environments which may condition vowel length Eunice V. Pike Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
What is a 'register' language? Richard S. Pittman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
F. Comparative Studies
The Proto Otopamean vowel system and the development of Matlatzinca Doris A. Bartholomew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
A new look at Aztec-Tanoan Irvine Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
Interpreting the past from the present: a Nahuat example Mary Ritchie Key Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Prenasalized stops in Proto-Indo-European André Martinet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
G. Oral Tradition
Tsimshian poetics John A. Dunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Thoth and oral tradition Carleton T. Hodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
Some aspects of textual relations in Jawoyn, Northern Australia Francesca Merlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
H. Ethnological Studies
"Say 'Hello' to your (second) cousin Claude:" kinship terminology and recursive rules Philip K. Bock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Kumix: the Chorti hero John Fought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461
Visualizing the physical context of discourse in languages of the past Saul Levin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	469
Ethnographic notes and observations on the Big Man Complex among the Nacirema J. Anthony Paredes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	483
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	491

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