American indigenous languages
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American indigenous languages
Paperback. For ten winter days in 1977, the orator Paul John - widely respected as a dean of Yupik elders - held an audience of Yupik students rapt at Nelson Island High School in southwest Alaska. This book records one elder's attempt to create a moral universe for future generations through stories about the special knowledge of the Yupik people. Editor(s): Fienup-Riordan, Ann. Translator(s): Shield, Sophie. Num Pages: 856 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 2JN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 856
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295983509
- ISBN
- 9780295983509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.17
€ 51.99
€ 46.17
Paperback. The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories together, with a focus on the mid-eighteenth century. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; CJB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771122009
- ISBN
- 9781771122009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.78
€ 51.78
Hardback. This timely book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction. Series: First Nations Language Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white line drawings, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2JN; CFH; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774806251
- ISBN
- 9780774806251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.04
€ 167.04
Paperback. This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. It introduces typologically rare affixation effects to current theoretical debates about the division of labor between the modules of the grammar. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2J; 2ZX; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048122622
- ISBN
- 9789048122622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.97
€ 124.97
This definitive dictionary and linguistic resource by Robert Young is once again available. Num Pages: 1069 pages. BIC Classification: 2JN; CBD; CJBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 71. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1069
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826310149
- ISBN
- 9780826310149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 171.39
€ 171.39
Hardback. A phonetic fieldwork study of the sound system of an important Native American language. This work is one of the monograph-length phonetic investigations of an indigenous North American language. It provides a baseline description of the phonetics of the Navajo language, as it is spoken on the Navajo reservation. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2JND; 2JNN; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402013515
- ISBN
- 9781402013515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.78
€ 126.78
Hardcover. In his latest study of the Navajo language, Professor Robert W. Young tackles the obstacle that Navajo appears to be a verb-centered language in which all the verbs are ""irregular"". Num Pages: 329 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 2JND; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 215 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1182.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826321725
- ISBN
- 9780826321725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.06
€ 98.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 452 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 2JND; CJBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 205 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826319029
- ISBN
- 9780826319029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.65
€ 79.65
Paperback. Editor(s): Leopold, Joan. Series: Prix Volney Essay Series. Num Pages: 995 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AD; 2J; CBX; CFA; CFF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401098762
- ISBN
- 9789401098762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.21
€ 129.21
Paperback. Offers a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism", the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural "sovereignty" and "property", and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Num Pages: 149 pages, Index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 9. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780803277861
- ISBN
- 9780803277861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.24
€ 18.24
Hardcover. Num Pages: 398 pages, 6 color illustrations, 116 black-and-white illustrations, 49 color photographs, 20 black-. BIC Classification: 1QDAK; 2JN; CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 223 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884023685
- ISBN
- 9780884023685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.70€ 58.02
€ 63.70
€ 58.02
Paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2JN; CJB; HBJK; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873658171
- ISBN
- 9780873658171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.05
€ 53.99
€ 45.05
Hardback. A detailed study of West Greenlandic Eskimo, examining the effect that the role of a speaker has on syntactic structures. Series: Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas. Num Pages: 464 pages, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1MTNG; 2JNB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803216457
- ISBN
- 9780803216457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.56
€ 87.56