Screen LibraryThe life of language : papers in linguistics in honor of william bright /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©1998 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ; 108 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110811155 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110811155.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (509pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110811155 |
| Index Number: | P26 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- Studies in language contact and language variation -- The revenge of Huitzilopochtli: A tale from Cr nica X in Spanish and Nahuatl -- Spanish loanwords in Hopi -- Discursive convergence with a Tewa evidential -- Internal reconstruction in Aymara and Quechua -- Otom loans and creations -- Sex differences in Irish Sign Language -- Language contact: A case study of French Americans in California and Oregon -- Yokuts and Miwok loanwords in Western Mono -- Wasei eigo: English "loanwords" coined in Japan -- A comparative study of English loanwords: Chicano Spanish and Mexican Spanish -- On reconstructing past contact situations -- Studies in language change, historical linguistics, and the history of linguistics -- Methodology for determining deep genetic relationship in Amerindian languages -- Linguistic contributions to Guatemalan prehistory -- Surveys of languages of the world -- The regression of sibilant harmony through the life of Barbarefio Chumash -- Studies in text and discourse -- Kaawosa plays a trick on a soldier: A Comanche coyote story -- Linguistic nuance and the secret music of the text -- Layers of meaning in a Wintu doctor song -- A Karok narrative dictated by Phoebe Maddux to J. P. Harrington -- Metaphor in Indian literature: Some thoughts on a taxonomy -- Mesa Grande 'Iipay oratory and narrative -- Cherokee stories of the supernatural -- Referent tracking in oral Spanish -- Transcreating culture and poetics -- Studies in language structure -- Indefinite pronouns in Kannada -- The Witsuwit'en disjunct morphemes: clitics or affixes? -- Phonetic studies of American Indian languages -- Objecthood and specificity in Gujarati -- The Garifuna gender system -- Connected speech in Hindi: Implications for sound change -- Incompatibilities among theories of Anglo-Saxon metrics -- Bibliography of the works of William Bright -- Biographical sketch of William Bright -- Index of languages |