33.448, Books: A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America: Kilarski

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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 10:07:38
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America: Kilarski

 


Title: A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North
America 
Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 129  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sihols.129 


Author: Marcin Kilarski

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258977 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258977 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258977 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210494 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210494 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210494 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

The languages indigenous to North America are characterized by a remarkable
genetic and typological diversity. Based on the premise that linguistic
examples play a key role in the origin and transmission of ideas within
linguistics and across disciplines, this book examines the history of
approaches to these languages through the lens of some of their most prominent
properties. These properties include consonant inventories and the near
absence of labials in Iroquoian languages, gender in Algonquian languages,
verbs for washing in the Iroquoian language Cherokee and terms for snow and
related phenomena in Eskimo-Aleut languages. By tracing the interpretations of
the four examples by European and American scholars, the author illustrates
their role in both lay and professional contexts as a window onto unfamiliar
languages and cultures, thus allowing a more holistic view of the history of
language study in North America.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Cherokee (chr)

Language Family(ies): Algonquian
                      Eskimo-Aleut 
                      Iroquoian 


Written In: English  (eng)

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