The Life of Language
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The Life of Language

Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright

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  2. English
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The Life of Language

Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110156331
eBook ISBN
9783110811155
Topic
Langues et linguistique
Subtopic
Linguistique historique et comparative

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Foreword
  3. Studies in language contact and language variation
  4. The revenge of Huitzilopochtli: A tale from CrĂłnica X in Spanish and Nahuatl
  5. Spanish loanwords in Hopi
  6. Discursive convergence with a Tewa evidential
  7. Internal reconstruction in Aymara and Quechua
  8. OtomĂ­ loans and creations
  9. Sex differences in Irish Sign Language
  10. Language contact: A case study of French Americans in California and Oregon
  11. Yokuts and Miwok loanwords in Western Mono
  12. Wasei eigo: English “loanwords” coined in Japan
  13. A comparative study of English loanwords: Chicano Spanish and Mexican Spanish
  14. On reconstructing past contact situations
  15. Studies in language change, historical linguistics, and the history of linguistics
  16. Methodology for determining deep genetic relationship in Amerindian languages
  17. Linguistic contributions to Guatemalan prehistory
  18. Surveys of languages of the world
  19. The regression of sibilant harmony through the life of Barbareño Chumash
  20. Studies in text and discourse
  21. Kaawosa plays a trick on a soldier: A Comanche coyote story
  22. Linguistic nuance and the secret music of the text
  23. Layers of meaning in a Wintu doctor song
  24. A Karok narrative dictated by Phoebe Maddux to J. P. Harrington
  25. Metaphor in Indian literature: Some thoughts on a taxonomy
  26. Mesa Grande ’Iipay oratory and narrative
  27. Cherokee stories of the supernatural
  28. Referent tracking in oral Spanish
  29. Transcreating culture and poetics
  30. Studies in language structure
  31. Indefinite pronouns in Kannada
  32. The Witsuwit’en disjunct morphemes: clitics or affixes?
  33. Phonetic studies of American Indian languages
  34. Objecthood and specificity in Gujarati
  35. The Garifuna gender system
  36. Connected speech in Hindi: Implications for sound change
  37. Incompatibilities among theories of Anglo-Saxon metrics
  38. Bibliography of the works of William Bright
  39. Biographical sketch of William Bright
  40. Index of languages

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