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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Bartholomew, Doris A.,; Basehart, Harry,; Bock, Philip K.,; Bock, Philip,; Bowen, J. Donald,; Darnell, Regna,; Davis, Irvine,; Davis, Philip W.,; Dubois, Betty Lou,; Dunn, John A.,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Fought, John,; Gamble, Geoffrey,; Gerdts, Donna B.,; Hale, Ken,; Hodge, Carleton T.,; Jeanne, LaVerne Masayesva,; Kari, James,; Key, Mary Ritchie,; Kinkade, M. Dale,; Langdon, Margaret,; Laudar, Herbert,; Levin, Saul,; Malkiel, Yakov,; Martinet, André,; Merlan, Francesca,; Miller, Jay,; Newman, Stanley S.,; Paredes, J. Anthony,; Pickett, Velma B.,; Pike, Eunice V.,; Pittman, Richard S.,; Rigsby, Bruce,; Saunders, Ross,; Sherzer, Joel,; Silverstein, Michael,; Walker, Willard,; Young, Robert W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hoenigswald, Henry M.,; Key, Mary Ritchie,
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 499 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of 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