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General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics : In Remembrance of Stanley Newman / ed. by Henry M. Hoenigswald, Mary Ritchie Key.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 55Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: Reprint 2019Description: 1 online resource (XV, 499 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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  • 9783110118223
  • 9783110862799
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  • 497
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- A. The History of Linguistics and Stanley Newman's Six Decades -- Prague -- How I discovered linguistics -- SONGS FOR A WINDY DAY -- Bibliography of Stanley S. Newman -- Inventory of Stanley Newman's linguistic materials -- "Singularly like our ideal of a scientist" -- Obituary Stanley S. Newman (1905-1984) -- Stanley Newman and the Sapir school of linguistics -- Sapir's panoramic view (1926) of recent advances in linguistics -- B. American Indian Studies -- Institutional language maintenance resources of American Indians in the early 1980s -- Spanish loans in Wikchamni -- Some principles of Alaskan Athabaskan toponymic knowledge -- Deified mind among the Keresan Pueblos -- Creek curing in academe -- C. Grammar and Discourse -- On the unit of paragraph analysis in formal monologue discourse -- Object agreement in the Halkomelem Salish Passive: a morphological explanation -- Argument obviation and switch-reference in Hopi -- Some agent hierarchies in Upper Chehalis -- Vowel ablaut and its functions in Yuman -- Aspect in Isthmus Zapotee -- A later view of Gitksan syntax -- The Kuna verb: a study in the interplay of grammar, discourse, and style -- D. Word Formation -- Navajo stem variation -- Lexical morphemes in Bella Coola -- Lexical elaboration in Navajo -- E. Phonology -- Loss of contrast between voiced and voiceless alveolar flapped stops in American English -- Some environments which may condition vowel length -- What is a 'register' language? -- F. Comparative Studies -- The Proto Otopamean vowel system and the development of Matlatzinca -- A new look at Aztec-Tanoan -- Interpreting the past from the present: a Nahuat example -- Prenasalized stops in Proto-Indo-European -- G. Oral Tradition -- Tsimshian poetics -- Thoth and oral tradition -- Some aspects of textual relations in Jawoyn, Northern Australia -- H. Ethnological Studies -- "Say 'Hello' to your (second) cousin Claude:" kinship terminology and recursive rules -- Kumix: the Chorti hero -- Visualizing the physical context of discourse in languages of the past -- Ethnographic notes and observations on the Big Man Complex among the Nacirema -- Index
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- A. The History of Linguistics and Stanley Newman's Six Decades -- Prague -- How I discovered linguistics -- SONGS FOR A WINDY DAY -- Bibliography of Stanley S. Newman -- Inventory of Stanley Newman's linguistic materials -- "Singularly like our ideal of a scientist" -- Obituary Stanley S. Newman (1905-1984) -- Stanley Newman and the Sapir school of linguistics -- Sapir's panoramic view (1926) of recent advances in linguistics -- B. American Indian Studies -- Institutional language maintenance resources of American Indians in the early 1980s -- Spanish loans in Wikchamni -- Some principles of Alaskan Athabaskan toponymic knowledge -- Deified mind among the Keresan Pueblos -- Creek curing in academe -- C. Grammar and Discourse -- On the unit of paragraph analysis in formal monologue discourse -- Object agreement in the Halkomelem Salish Passive: a morphological explanation -- Argument obviation and switch-reference in Hopi -- Some agent hierarchies in Upper Chehalis -- Vowel ablaut and its functions in Yuman -- Aspect in Isthmus Zapotee -- A later view of Gitksan syntax -- The Kuna verb: a study in the interplay of grammar, discourse, and style -- D. Word Formation -- Navajo stem variation -- Lexical morphemes in Bella Coola -- Lexical elaboration in Navajo -- E. Phonology -- Loss of contrast between voiced and voiceless alveolar flapped stops in American English -- Some environments which may condition vowel length -- What is a 'register' language? -- F. Comparative Studies -- The Proto Otopamean vowel system and the development of Matlatzinca -- A new look at Aztec-Tanoan -- Interpreting the past from the present: a Nahuat example -- Prenasalized stops in Proto-Indo-European -- G. Oral Tradition -- Tsimshian poetics -- Thoth and oral tradition -- Some aspects of textual relations in Jawoyn, Northern Australia -- H. Ethnological Studies -- "Say 'Hello' to your (second) cousin Claude:" kinship terminology and recursive rules -- Kumix: the Chorti hero -- Visualizing the physical context of discourse in languages of the past -- Ethnographic notes and observations on the Big Man Complex among the Nacirema -- Index

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