The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America : : A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1 / / ed. by Marianne Mithun, Keren Rice, Carmen Dagostino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L.,; Berge, Anna,; Bird, Sonya,; Bliss, Heather,; Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth,; Broadwell, George Aaron,; Chen, Sihwei,; Claxton, Rae Anne,; Dahlstrom, Amy,; Fitzgerald, Colleen M.,; Gelderen, Elly van,; Gick, Bryan,; Gord, Matthew K.,; Gordon, Matthew K.,; Haynie, Hannah J.,; Henderson, Robert,; Hieber, Daniel W.,; Holton, Gary,; Lovick, Olga,; Matthewson, Lisa,; McKenzie, Andrew,; Mithun, Marianne,; Nolan, Tess,; Palakurthy, Kayla,; Peterson, Tyler,; Rice, Sally,; Sammons, Olivia N.,; Spence, Justin,; Thomason, Sarah,; Thornes, Tim,; Tuttle, Siri G.,; Uchihara, Hiroto,; Urbanczyk, Suzanne,; Webster, Anthony K.,; Wilhelm, Andrea,; Zúñiga, Fernando,
• HerausgeberIn: Dagostino, Carmen,; Mithun, Marianne,; Rice, Keren,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The World of Linguistics [WOL] ; 13.1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (LII, 715 p.)

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of North American families, languages, and dialects -- Maps -- I Sounds and sound structure -- 1 Acoustic phonetics -- 2 Articulatory phonetics -- 3 Tone -- 4 Segmental phonology -- 5 Prosodic morphology -- 6 Word prosody -- 7 Prosody beyond the word -- II Words -- 8 What is a word? -- 9 Word classes -- III Sentences -- 10 Syntax within the clause -- 11 Negatives -- 12 Questions and requests in North American languages -- 13 Information structure -- 14 Clause-combining: Relative clauses -- 15 Clause combining: Syntax of subordination and complementation -- 16 Switch-reference and event cohesion -- IV Discourse -- 17 Verbal art -- 18 Conversation structure -- V Meaning -- 19 Lexicalization and lexical meaning -- 20 Lexicography -- 21 Evidentiality -- 22 Pluractionality and distributivity -- 23 Mass and count nouns -- 24 Sense of place: Space, landscape, and orientation -- 25 A sense of time and world -- 26 Pragmatics -- VI Languages over space and time -- 27 Languages as dynamic systems: How grammar can emerge -- 28 Language contact and linguistic areas -- 29 Language classification -- 30 Archival-based sociolinguistic variation -- 31 Community-based sociolinguistic variation