Theoretical Perspectives on Native American Languages

American linguistics has a tradition of finding unique and important insights from studies of Native American languages, often leading to innovations in current theories. At the same time, research on Native languages has been enhanced by the perspectives of modern theory. This book extends this tradition by presenting original analyses of aspects of six Native languages of Canada-Algonquin, Athapaskan, Eskimo, Iroquoian, Salishan, and Siouan.
Addressing problems relevant to phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, the authors make both descriptive and theoretical contributions by presenting data that has not been previously published or treated from the viewpoint of contemporary theory.

About the author

Donna B. Gerdts is in the Department of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Karin Michelson is in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Donna B Gerdts (Editor), Donna B. Gerdts (Editor), Karin Michelson (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1989
• EAN: 9780887066436
• ISBN: 978-0-88706-643-6
• No. of pages: 289
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: Suny Series in Linguistics; Suny Series in Linguistics; Suny Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures