Studies in American Indian Languages

by Hinton, Leanne; Munro, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780520097896
• ISBN10: 0520097890
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists today. Half of the essays treat Hokan languages, but Uto-Aztecan, Penutian, Muskogean, Iroquoian, Mayan, and other groups are also represented, with pieces on phonology, syntax, the lexicon, and discourse.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(4)
YUMAN	5	(72)
Classificatory Verbs in Cocopa	5	(5)
James M. Crawford
Subjectivity and Variation in Desiderative Constructions of Diegueno and Cocopa	10	(6)
Larry Gorbet
Demonstratives and Verbal Suffixes in Tolkapaya: An Outline	16	(7)
Heather K. Hardy
A History of Orthography in Yuman Linguistics, With Special Reference to Northern Pai	23	(9)
Leanne Hinton
Another Look at the Paipai-Arizona Pai Divergence	32	(9)
Judith Joel
Cognitive Grammar Meets the Yuman Auxiliary	41	(8)
Ronald W. Langacker
Topic-Continuity and the Kiliwa Particles wi? and win	49	(8)
Mauricio J. Mixco
Discourse Routines in Hualapai Stories	57	(15)
Lucille J. Watahomigie
Akira Y. Yamamoto
? in Yuman Nouns	72	(5)
Werner Winter
POMOAN	77	(25)
Fluid Aspects of Negation in Central Pomo	77	(10)
Marianne Mithun
Three Laryngeal Increments of Kashaya	87	(8)
Robert L. Oswalt
Northern Pomo Numerals: A Quadriquinary Vigesimal System	95	(7)
Eero Vihman
OTHER HOKAN	102	(38)
Headless Relative Clauses in Washo	102	(15)
William H. Jacobsen, Jr
How Rabbit Fooled Puma: A Seri Text	117	(13)
Mary B. Moser
Stephen A. Marlett
The Huelel (Esselen) Language	130	(10)
David Leedom Shaul
UTO-AZTECAN	140	(21)
Poetic Structures in a Nahuatl Narrative	140	(7)
William Bright
A Whale of a Tale about Cora Meeru'u	147	(5)
Eugene H. Casad
It's Raining	152	(9)
Susan Steele
CALIFORNIA PENUTIAN	161	(12)
The Imperative in Proto-Utian	161	(7)
Catherine A. Callaghan
Switch-Reference in Wikchamni	168	(5)
Geoffrey Gamble
MUSKOGEAN	173	(14)
Time, Switch-Reference, and the Choctaw Progressive	173	(7)
William D. Davies
Chickasaw Expressive `Say' Constructions	180	(7)
Pamela Munro
IROQUOIAN	187	(10)
Polysynthetic Puns	187	(3)
Wallace Chafe
`To Be' in Wichita	190	(7)
David S. Rood
SALISHAN Intransitive Verb Classes in Halkomelem Salish	197	(7)
Donna B. Gerdts
ATHABASCAN Complement Clauses in Dogrib	204	(8)
Leslie Saxon
MAYAN	212	(22)
Antipassive and 2-3 Retreat in K'ekchi Mayan: Two Constructions with the Same Verbal Reflex	212	(11)
Ava Berinstein
Spanish Loans in Cakchiquel	223	(11)
Nancy Stenson
OTOMANGUEAN Word Order and Verb Agreement in Yatee Zapotec	234	(7)
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE	241	(12)
An Old California Word for `Mountain Lion/Wildcat'	241	(7)
Michael J.P. Nichols
Ethnobotany as a Linguistic Tool
Maurice L. Zigmond
REFERENCES	253