California Indian Languages.
Title:
California Indian Languages.
Author:
Golla, Victor.
ISBN:
9780520949522
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (395 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PHONETIC ORTHOGRAPHY -- PART ONE: Introduction: Defining California as a Sociolinguistic Area -- 1.1 Diversity -- 1.2 Tribelet and Language -- 1.3 Symbolic Function of California Languages -- 1.4 Languages and Migration -- 1.5 Multilingualism -- 1.6 Language Families and Phyla -- PART TWO: History of Study -- Before Linguistics -- 2.1 Earliest Attestations -- 2.2 Jesuit Missionaries in Baja California -- 2.3 Franciscans in Alta California -- 2.4 Visitors and Collectors, 1780-1880 -- Linguistic Scholarship -- 2.5 Early Research Linguistics, 1865-1900 -- 2.6 The Kroeber Era, 1900 to World War II -- 2.7 Independent Scholars, 1900-1940 -- 2.8 Structural Linguists -- 2.9 The Survey of California (and Other) Indian Languages -- 2.10 The Contemporary Scene: Continuing Documentation and Research within and beyond the Academy -- PART THREE: Languages and Language Families -- Algic Languages -- 3.1 California Algic Languages (Ritwan) -- 3.2 Wiyot -- 3.3 Yurok -- Athabaskan (Na-Dene) Languages -- 3.4 The Pacific Coast Athabaskan Languages -- 3.5 Lower Columbia Athabaskan (Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai) -- 3.6 Oregon Athabaskan Languages -- 3.7 California Athabaskan Languages -- Hokan Languages -- 3.8 The Hokan Phylum -- 3.9 Karuk -- 3.10 Chimariko -- 3.11 Shastan Languages -- 3.12 Palaihnihan Languages -- 3.13 Yana -- 3.14 Washo -- 3.15 Pomo Languages -- 3.16 Esselen -- 3.17 Salinan -- 3.18 Yuman Languages -- 3.19 Cochimí and the Cochimí-Yuman Relationship -- 3.20 Seri -- Penutian Languages -- 3.21 The Penutian Phylum -- 3.22 Takelma -- 3.23 Klamath-Modoc -- 3.24 Maiduan Languages -- 3.25 Wintuan Languages -- 3.26 Yokuts -- 3.27 Miwok Languages -- 3.28 Costanoan (Ohlone) Languages -- 3.29 Utian -- Uto-Aztecan Languages -- 3.30 Uto-Aztecan and Northern Uto-Aztecan -- 3.31 Numic Languages -- 3.32 Takic Languages -- 3.33 Tubatulabal.
3.34 Giamina (Omomil) -- Languages of Uncertain Affiliation -- 3.35 Yukian Languages -- 3.36 Chumash Languages -- 3.37 Southern Baja California Languages: Monqui, Waikuri, and Pericú -- PART FOUR: Typological and Areal Features: California as a Linguistic Area -- Phonology -- 4.1 Consonants -- 4.2 Vowels -- 4.3 Pitch Accent and Tone -- Grammar -- 4.4 Morphological Processes -- 4.5 Structural Patterns -- 4.6 Case Marking -- 4.7 Marking of Plurality -- 4.8 Stem Derivation -- 4.9 Switch Reference -- Linguistic Culture -- 4.10 Numerals -- 4.11 Names -- 4.12 Diminutive and Other Expressive Symbolism -- 4.13 Social and Situational Varieties -- 4.14 Precontact Lexical Borrowing -- 4.15 Postcontact Lexical Borrowing -- PART FIVE: Linguistic Prehistory -- 5.1 The Oldest Stratum? Waikuri, Chumash, Yukian -- 5.2 Hokan -- 5.3 Penutian -- 5.4 Uto-Aztecan -- 5.5 Algic -- 5.6 Athabaskan -- APPENDIX A. C. HART MERRIAM'S VOCABULARIES AND NATURAL HISTORY WORD LISTS FOR CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES -- APPENDIX B. MATERIALS ON CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES IN THE PAPERS OF JOHN PEABODY HARRINGTON -- APPENDIX C. PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS WIDELY USED IN CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGE MATERIALS -- APPENDIX D. BASIC NUMERALS IN SELECTED CALIFORNIA LANGUAGES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages-from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, and to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of the language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California's remarkable Indian languages.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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