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

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
©1989
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:Reprint 2019
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 55
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 499 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Other title: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
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110862799
9783110636772
ISSN:1861-0676 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110862799
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Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Henry M. Hoenigswald, Mary Ritchie Key.