TY - BOOK ID - 136629639 TI - The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America : A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1 AU - Dagostino, Carmen AU - Mithun, Marianne AU - Rice, Keren PY - 2023 SN - 3110600927 3110598698 PB - Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, DB - UniCat KW - Indians of North America KW - Indigenous people KW - Indigenous people of North America KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Languages. KW - Indigenous Languages, North America, Linguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136629639 AB - This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization. ER -