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