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On Reconstructing Grammar(Hardback)
Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax
Oxford University Press Inc
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03/09/1998
Gildea has two goals in this book, first to argue that grammaticalization theory has advanced to the point that it can be used with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languag...
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Power Sharing(Hardback)
Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Oxford University Press Inc
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19/09/1998
Keating looks at the relationship between a number of variables in Micronesia: (language, power, social space, and genes), and how they interact to create and maintain the political hierarchy. In pa...
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The Powers of Genre(Hardback)
Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/11/1998
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from ...
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The Athabaskan Languages(Hardback)
Perspectives on a Native American Language Family
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/05/2000
The Athabaskan language family is the largest group of Amerindian languages in North America, including languages such as Navajo and Apache. This volume is a collection of previously unpublished art...
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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages(Hardback)
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/09/1998
Brown examines the nature of acculturation - the process of the incorporation of foreign words about new concepts into a language - in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Specifica...
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Words and Stones(Hardback)
The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/05/2004
Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. B...
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American Indian Languages(Paperback)
The Historical Linguistics of Native America
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/08/2000
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Es...
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Vernacular Literacy(Hardback)
A Re-Evaluation
Clarendon Press
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11/09/1997
Illiteracy problems are worldwide, and growing. Political and economic factors are often in conflict over which language to use for basic education; how it should be taught; what resources are avail...
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