Books: Native American Languages

[Scott McGinnis]

The Languages of Native North America
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara


This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Native North
American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous
genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to
current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their
special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, and a
catalogue of the languages detailing their locations, genetic
affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and
listing published material on them.

Contents:

Introduction; Part I. The Nature of the Languages: 1. Sounds and sound
patterns; 2. Words; 3. Grammatical categories; 4. Sentences;
5. Special language; Part II. Catalogue of Languages: 6. Relations
among the languages; 7. Catalogue.

Cambridge Language Surveys

1999/795 pp./12 maps^L
0-521-23228-7/Hb/List: $80.00  Disc.: $64.00


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