California Indian Languages

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-38967-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golla, Victor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE
PHONETIC ORTHOGRAPHY

PART ONE Introduction: Defining California as a Sociolinguistic Area
1.1 Diversity

1.2 Tribelet and Language
1.3 Symbolic Function of California Languages
1.4 Languages and Migration
1.5 Multilingualism
1.6 Language Families and Phyla

PART TWO History of Study

Before Linguistics

2.1 Earliest Attestations
2.2 Jesuit Missionaries in Baja California

2.3 Franciscans in Alta California
2.4 Visitors and Collectors, 1780–1880

Linguistic Scholarship

2.5 Early Research Linguistics, 1865–1900

2.6 The Kroeber Era, 1900 to World War II
2.7 Independent Scholars, 1900–1940
2.8 Structural Linguists
2.9 The Survey of California (and Other) Indian Languages
2.10 The Contemporary Scene: Continuing Documentation and Research within and beyond the Academy

PART THREE Languages and Language Families

Algic Languages
3.1 California Algic Languages (Ritwan)
3.2 Wiyot
3.3 Yurok

Athabaskan (Na-Dene) Languages

3.4 The Pacific Coast Athabaskan Languages
3.5 Lower Columbia Athabaskan (Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai)
3.6 Oregon Athabaskan Languages
3.7 California Athabaskan Languages

Hokan Languages
3.8 The Hokan Phylum
3.9 Karuk

3.10 Chimariko
3.11 Shastan Languages
3.12 Palaihnihan Languages
3.13 Yana
3.14 Washo
3.15 Pomo Languages
3.16 Esselen
3.17 Salinan
3.18 Yuman Languages
3.19 Cochimí and the Cochimí-Yuman Relationship
3.20 Seri

Penutian Languages
3.21 The Penutian Phylum
3.22 Takelma

3.23 Klamath-Modoc
3.24 Maiduan Languages
3.25 Wintuan Languages

3.26 Yokuts
3.27 Miwok Languages

3.28 Costanoan (Ohlone) Languages
3.29 Utian

Uto-Aztecan Languages
3.30 Uto-Aztecan and Northern Uto-Aztecan
3.31 Numic Languages
3.32 Takic Languages
3.33 Tubatulabal
3.34 Giamina (Omomil)

Languages of Uncertain Affiliation
3.35 Yukian Languages
3.36 Chumash Languages
3.37 Southern Baja California Languages: Monqui, Waikuri, and Pericú

PART FOUR Typological and Areal Features: California as a Linguistic Area

Phonology
4.1 Consonants
4.2 Vowels
4.3 Pitch Accent and Tone

Grammar
4.4 Morphological Processes
4.5 Structural Patterns
4.6 Case Marking
4.7 Marking of Plurality
4.8 Stem Derivation
4.9 Switch Reference

Linguistic Culture
4.10 Numerals
4.11 Names
4.12 Diminutive and Other Expressive Symbolism
4.13 Social and Situational Varieties
4.14 Precontact Lexical Borrowing
4.15 Postcontact Lexical Borrowing

PART FIVE Linguistic Prehistory
5.1 The Oldest Stratum? Waikuri, Chumash, Yukian
5.2 Hokan
5.3 Penutian

5.4 Uto-Aztecan
5.5 Algic

5.6 Athabaskan

APPENDIX A. C. HART MERRIAM'S VOCABULARIES AND NATURAL HISTORY WORD LISTS FOR CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES
APPENDIX B. MATERIALS ON CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES IN THE PAPERS OF JOHN PEABODY HARRINGTON
APPENDIX C. PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS WIDELY USED IN CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGE MATERIALS
APPENDIX D. BASIC NUMERALS IN SELECTED CALIFORNIA LANGUAGES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Victor Golla, a leading expert on the native languages of California, is Professor of Anthropology at Humboldt State University. He is the editor of The Sapir-Kroeber Correspondence: Letters Between Edward Sapir and Alfred Kroeber, 1905–1925 and of several volumes of The Collected Works of Edward Sapir.