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"And he knew our language"
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 158.00This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible... more...
The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1994; US$ 143.00This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian Creole, in common with many Creole languages, emerged under... more...
Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 158.00This book is a ?must read? for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts of creole genesis, this volume considers socio-historical... more...
American Indian Languages
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 75.00Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics. more...
Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch
De Gruyter 1947; US$ 293.00Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch (Abhandlungen Aus Dem Gebiet Der Auslandskunde / Reihe B: V L) more...
Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 158.00This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced forms of passive structures are shown to be used productively... more...
Astrolinguistics
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99In linguistics, one of the main areas of modern research involves the capabilities and possibilities of there being a 'lingua cosmica,' a LINCOS, a universal language that could be used to communicate with non-human intelligences. This book touches on the area of the development and use of a 'lingua universalis' for interstellar communication,... more...
The Athabaskan Languages
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 134.99The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators. The linguistic chapters in this volume focus on syntax and semantics, but also involve morphology, phonology, and historical linguistics. Included is a discussion of whether religion and secular issues can be separated in Navajo classrooms. more...
Athabaskan Prosody
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 195.00This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages, Chiricahua Apache, Dene Soun'liné, Jicarilla Apache,... more...









