The Life of Language : : Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright / / ed. by Jane H. Hill, Lyle Campbell, P. J. Mistry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anderton, Alice J.,; Bhat, D. N. S.,; Callaghan, Catherine A.,; Campbell, Lyle,; Daniels, Peter T.,; Emeneau, Murray Β.,; Friedrich, Paul,; Fromkin, Victoria,; Hargus, Sharon,; Hill, Jane H.,; Hill, Kenneth C.,; Hinton, Leanne,; Hymes, Dell H.,; Krishnamurti, Bh.,; Kroskrity, Paul V.,; Ladefoged, Peter,; Landerman, Peter,; Langdon, Margaret,; Lastra, Yolanda,; LeMaster, Barbara,; Lindenfeld, Jacqueline,; Loether, Christopher,; Miller, Laura,; Mistry, P. J.,; Mithun, Marianne,; Munro, Pamela,; Ohala, Manjari,; Parodi, Claudia,; Scancarelli, Janine,; Shepherd, Alice,; Sherzer, Joel,; Silva-Corvalán, Carmen,; Stockwell, Robert P.,; Thomason, Sarah Grey,; Urrutia, Anselmo,
• HerausgeberIn: Campbell, Lyle,; Hill, Jane H.,; Mistry, P. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 108
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (509 p.)

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- Studies in language contact and language variation -- The revenge of Huitzilopochtli: A tale from Crónica X in Spanish and Nahuatl -- Spanish loanwords in Hopi -- Discursive convergence with a Tewa evidential -- Internal reconstruction in Aymara and Quechua -- Otomí 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