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The Life of Language
Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright
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The Life of Language
Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- 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 Barbareño 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