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  • Language in the Americas

    This book is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. The only languages excluded are those belonging to the Na-Dene and Eskimo- Aleut families. It examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant language genetically, is not to be included in Na-Dene. It confined itself to Sapir's data, ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Dog's Children

    Anishinaabe Texts told by Angeline Williams

    Series series Algonquian Text Society
    These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield's linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by Bloomfield. Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Writing Without Words

    Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes

    The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • They Knew Both Sides of Medicine

    Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew

    Series series Algonquian Text Society
    Born in 1912, Alice Ahenakew was brought up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family, who later became an Anglican clergyman and a prominent healer. Alice Ahenakew's personal reminiscences include stories of her childhood, courtship and marriage, as well as an account of the 1928 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Arapaho Historical Traditions

    Hinono'einoo3itoono

    Translated by Andrew Cowell ...
    Series series Algonquian Text Society
    Told by Paul Moss (1911-1995), a highly respected storyteller and ceremonial leader, these twelve texts introduce us to an immensely rich literature. As works of an oral tradition, they had until now remained beyond the reach of those who do not speak the Arapaho language. Here, for the first time, these outstanding examples of Indigenous North American literature are printed in their original ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Counselling Speeches of Jim Ka-Nipitehtew

    Series series Algonquian Text Society
    Jim Ka-Nipitehtew was a respected Cree Elder from Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, who spoke only Cree and provided these original counselling discourses. The book offers the speeches in Cree syllabics and in Roman Orthography as well as an English translation and commentary. The Elder offers guidance for First Nations people in these eight speeches that cover the proper performance of ceremonies, words ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Arapaho Language

    The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document Arapaho's interesting features, including a pitch-based accent system with no exact Algonquian ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language

    Taken from the surviving contemporary documentary sources, Julian Granberry's volume describes the grammar and lexicon for the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and North Florida and traces the origins of the 17th-century Timucua speakers and their language. Originally privately published in 1987, with limited circulation, this is the only available publication on the Timucuan ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Living Our Language

    Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories

    by Anton Treuer ...
    Series series Native Voices
    A language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.>As fluent speakers of Ojibwe grow older, the community questions whether younger speakers know the language ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Comanche Vocabulary

    Trilingual Edition

    Translated by Daniel J. Gelo ...
    Series series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
    “This is the most important pre-reservation document that we have for the Comanche language . . . It should be in every university research library.” —James A. Goss, Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech UniversityThe Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861–1864 by Manuel García Rejón is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maya for Travelers and Students

    A Guide to Language and Culture in Yucatan

    The Yucatan Peninsula draws many North American and European travelers each year to view the ruins of the pre-Columbian Classical Maya civilization and the abundant native flora and fauna. For these travelers, as well as armchair travelers and students, Gary Bevington has prepared the first general English-language introduction to Yucatec Maya, the native language of the people indigenous to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Inglés exprés: Frases clave

    Director de la colección Robert Wilson. Si nos paramos a analizar la cantidad de tiempos muertos que hay en nuestra vida cotidiana, y nos imaginamos unas lecciones ideadas para que se puedan estudiar en 30 minutos, veremos que aprender o perfeccionar el inglés es perfectamente posible y está al alcance de todos. El libro que tiene entre sus manos le permitirá aprender las frases y el vocabulario ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inglés exprés: Inglés de base

    Bajo la dirección de Robert Wilson, director de la colección y fundador de la colección “Aprender idiomas en 5 días”. ¿Aprender inglés de manera sencilla y divertida? ¡Ahora es posible! Con el famoso método Wilson y sus cursos en 30 minutos cada día, no más, el lector tiene la mejor oportunidad de aprender inglés con éxito. Sin perder el tiempo con informaciones innecesarias, con una lección por ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inglés exprés: Inglés en el trabajo

    Director de la colección Robert Wilson. Si nos paramos a analizar la cantidad de tiempos muertos que hay en nuestra vida cotidiana, y nos imaginamos unas lecciones ideadas para que se puedan estudiar en 30 minutos, veremos que aprender o perfeccionar el inglés es perfectamente posible y está al alcance de todos. El libro que tiene entre sus manos le permitirá aprender las frases y el vocabulario ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inglés exprés: Cómo evitar los errores más frecuentes

    Bajo la dirección de Robert Wilson, director de la colección y fundador de la colección “Aprender idiomas en 5 días”. ¿Aprender inglés de manera sencilla y divertida? ¡Ahora es posible! Con el famoso método Wilson y sus cursos en 30 minutos cada día, no más, el lector tiene la mejor oportunidad de aprender inglés con éxito. Sin perder el tiempo con informaciones innecesarias, con una lección por ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inglés exprés: Currículum vitae, cartas comerciales y correos electrónicos

    Director de la colección: Robert Wilson. Si nos paramos a analizar la cantidad de cartas y correos electrónicos profesionales que hay que hacer hoy en día en inglés o recapacitamos sobre el número de veces en que hemos rectificado nuestro currículum y nos imaginamos unas lecciones ideadas para que se puedan estudiar en 30 minutos, veremos que aprender o perfeccionar el inglés es perfectamente ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tzotzil Clause Structure

    by J. Aissen ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    xv NOTES ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND CITATIONS xxi LIST OF ABBREVIA TIONS XXIIl CHAPTER 1: GRAMMATICAL NOTES 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Basics 1 3. Major Lexical Classes 2 3. 1. V 3 3. 2. N 3 3. 3. A 5 3. 3. 1. Quantifiers 6 3. 3. 2. Existentials and Locatives 6 4. Minor Lexical Classes 7 4. 1. Clitics 7 4. 1. 1. Clause-proclitic 7 4. 1. 2. S-enclitic 8 4. 1. 3. V-enclitic 8 4. 1. 4. Clause-second 9 4. 2. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Bringing Our Languages Home

    Language Revitalization for Families

    by Leanne Hinton ...
    Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana put labels all over their house marked with the Miami words for common objects and activities, to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bringing Our Languages Home

    Language Revitalization for Families

    Edited by Leanne Hinton ...
    Thirteen personal accounts of endangered language preservation, plus a how-to guide for parents looking to do the same in their own home.Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec

    by H. Gerfen ...
    Series Book 48 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    BACKGROUND This book focuses on two major issues - vowel glottalization and nasalization - in the phonology and phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec (henceforth CM). CM is an Otomanguean language currently spoken by roughly 2000 people (Small 1990) in the village of San Juan Coatzospan, which is located in the Sierra Mazateca of northern Oaxaca, Mexico.' Though Mixtec constitutes a major branch of the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Indian Lnguistic Families of America North of Mexico

    by J. W. Powel ...
    This edition features• map• a linked Table of Contents and Index ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)

    Series series Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas
    Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThis volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias, who have lived in this remote region for more ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Annals of the Cakchiquels

    The Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and Introduction

    The Annals of the CakchiquelsThe Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and IntroductionThis edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSPREFACE,INTRODUCTION,Ethnologic Position of the Cakchiquels,Culture of the Cakchiquels,The Capital City of the Cakchiquels,Computation of Time,Personal and Family Names,Tribal Subdivisions,Terms of Affinity and... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD