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The Athabaskan language family, which constitutes the largest group of Amerindian languages, poses linguistic challenges. This is a collection of articles on syntax, semantics and morphology as well as a look at the languages' struggle to survive.

Athapascan languages --- Navajo language --- Dine language --- Navaho language --- Navajú language --- Athabascan languages --- Na-Dene languages --- Tinne languages --- North and Central American indian languages --- Athapascan languages.

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This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages, Chiricahua Apache, Dene Soun'liné, Jicarilla Apache, Sekani, Slave, Tahltan, Tanacross, Western Apache, and Witsuwit'en. As well, some contributions describe how prosody is to be reconstructed for Proto-Athabaskan, and how it evolved in some of the daughter languages.

Athapascan Indians --- Athapascan Languages --- Languages --- Athapascan languages --- Langues athapascan --- Athapascan (Indiens) --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Langues --- Athabascan Indians --- Athabaskan Indians --- Athapaskan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Athabascan languages --- Na-Dene languages --- Tinne languages

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This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter.

Haida language --- Indians --- Indians of North America --- Haida (Langue) --- Langues indiennes d'Amérique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Discourse analysis --- Languages --- History --- Missions --- Analyse du discours --- Histoire --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / General --- Haida Indians --- Languages & Literatures --- Native American & Hyperborean Languages --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Aborigines, American --- Amerindians --- Amerinds --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Skittagetan Indians --- Skittagetan language --- Na-Dene languages --- Discourse analysis. --- Languages. --- History. --- Culture --- Civilization --- Langues indiennes d'Amérique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Languages&delete& --- Linguistics --- History of Linguistics --- Missionary Linguistics --- Anthropology