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This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. The eight studies in this volume introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological innovations to the study of lexical borrowing. These new perspectives significantly enhance our understanding of lexical borrowing and provide new insights into contact-induced variation and change.

Language and languages --- Language and culture --- Foreign words and phrases. --- Globalization. --- International words --- Loan words --- Loanwords --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Globalization --- Foreign words and phrases --- Foreign elements --- Taal en talen --- Loanwords (Linguistics) --- Lexical Borrowing. --- Onomasiology. --- Phraseology.

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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basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages-from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the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.

Indians of North America --- Languages. --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- algic. --- american languages. --- anthropology. --- athabaskan. --- baja california. --- california. --- chumash. --- franciscans. --- grammars. --- hokan. --- indian languages. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous language. --- indigenous languages. --- indigenous people. --- jesuit missionaries. --- language. --- languages. --- lexical borrowing. --- linguistic diversity. --- linguistics. --- monqui. --- native american. --- native speakers. --- nonfiction. --- pacific coast. --- penutian. --- pericu. --- pitch. --- postcolonial. --- prehistory. --- tone. --- uto aztecan. --- villages. --- waikuri. --- wintuan. --- yukian.