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Yuman languages --- Hokan languages --- Phonology.
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No detailed description available for "Comparative Hokan-Coahuiltecan Studies".
Hokan-Coahuiltecan languages. --- Hokan languages. --- Indians of Mexico --- Indians of North America --- Hokaltecan languages --- Hokan languages --- Languages
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Amerindian languages --- Hokan languages --- Congresses --- -Indians of Mexico --- Indians of North America --- Languages --- Congresses. --- -Congresses --- Indians of Mexico --- Hokan languages - Congresses
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The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.
Chimariko Indians --- Indians of North America --- Chimariko language --- Hokan languages --- Language. --- Languages. --- Grammar. --- 1920s. --- areal perspective. --- california. --- chimariko. --- collected data. --- dead languages. --- extinct language. --- functional typological. --- geography and language. --- grammar guide. --- indigenous languages. --- language contact. --- language reference. --- language. --- linguistic studies. --- linguistics. --- linguists. --- native languages. --- nonfiction. --- northern california. --- shared grammar. --- shared language traits. --- trinity county. --- typological perspective. --- unrelated languages.
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The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the giant, Old Lady Sanyuuxáv and her twin sons, and the Man Who Bothered Ants. This book makes a long-awaited contribution to the oral literature and mythology of the American Southwest, and its format and organization are of special interest. Narratives are presented in the original language and in the storytellers’ own words. A prosodically-motivated broken-line format captures the rhetorical structure and local organization of the oral delivery and calls attention to stylistic devices such as repetition and syntactic parallelism. Facing-page English translation provides a key to the original Quechan for the benefit of language learners. The stories are organized into "story complexes”, that is, clusters of narratives with overlapping topics, characters, and events, told from diverse perspectives. In presenting not just stories but story complexes, this volume captures the art of storytelling and illuminates the complexity and interconnectedness of an important body of oral literature. Stories from Quechan Oral Literature provides invaluable reading for anyone interested in Native American cultural heritage and oral traditions more generally.
Yuman languages. --- Yuman literature --- Yuman Indians --- Oral tradition --- Tales --- Folklore. --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Indians of North America --- Hokan languages --- Yuma Indians. --- Yuma language. --- Indians of Mexico --- Cuchan Indians --- Cuichana Indians --- Cutgana Indians --- Kwichan Indians --- Quechan Indians --- Umea Indians --- Yutcana Indians --- Languages --- Yuma Indians --- Mission Indians of California --- First Nations --- Yuman --- oral literature --- oral tradition --- Native Americans --- Quechan
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