Contents
4.4 - Language Communities of the Aztec Empire
List of Tables
Preface
Part I: Overview
1.1 - Popular Misconceptions
1.2 - Population and Language Diversity
1.3 - Language Vitality
1.4 - Language and Government Policy
1.5 - Literacy and Language Maintenance
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Part II: Languages and Structures
Chapter 2: Languges and Structures
Sound Systems
Grammatical Systems
2.1 - Possession: Example from Acoma
2.2 - Gender: Example from Plains Cree
2.3 - Number: Example from Shasta
2.4 - Person Reference: Examples from Aztec and Shoshoni
2.5 - Classifying Verbs: Examples from the Apachean Languages
2.6 - Evidentials: Examples from the Andes
2.7 - Sound Symbolism in California Languages
2.8 - Fundamentals of Language Expression
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Part III: Languages and Cultural Domains
Chapter 3: Languages and Cultural Domains
3.1 - Cultural Domain and Plant Taxonomy: Kashaya Pomo
3.2 - Cultural Domain and Geographic Orientation
3.3 - Cultural Domain and Geographic Orientation
3.4 - Languages and Social Space: Shoshoni Deixis
3.5 - Language and Counting Systems
3.6 - Classificatory Systems and World View: Numeral Classifiers in Northwest California Languages
3.7 - Worldview and the Hopi
3.8 - Worldview, Classificatory Systems, and Navajo
3.9 - The Cultural Uses of Taxonomies: The Slave Classification of Ice
3.10 - Language, Cognition, and Culture
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Part IV: Languages and Social Domains
4.1 - Languages Communities in the Great Basin
4.2 - Languages Communities in the Pueblos
4.3 - Language Communities of the Creek Confederacy
4.5 - Speech Community, the Social Group, and Culture
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5.1 - California Storytellers and Storytelling
5.2 - A Conversation with a California Storyteller
5.3 - Bungling Host, Benevolent Host: A Chinook Narrative
5.4 - An Old Lady's Lament: A Havasupai Song
5.5 - Male Shooting Chant Evil-chasing: A Navajo Prayer
5.6 - The Language of Three Kuna Performance Types
5.7 - Performances and Cross-cultural Comparison
5.8 - Prose, Poetry, and Playwriting
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Chapter 6: Fashions of Speaking
6.1 - Speech and Social Category: Respect Speech among the Aztec and Guarijío
6.2 - Speech and Social Category: Men's and Women's Speech in Yana
6.3 - Baby Talk in Cocopa
6.4 - Expressive Speech: Swearing, Speech Play, and Word Taboo
6.5 - Diminuitive, Augmentative, and Expressive Speech in the Northwest Coast
6.6 - Form and Function
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Chapter 7: Nonverbal Communication
7.1 - Silence: The Western Apache
7.2 - Kickapoo and Mazatec Whistle Speech
7.3 - Plains Sign Language
7.4 - Direct-signaling Systems and Their Communicative Purposes
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8.1 - Mesoamerican Writing
8.2 - The Mayan Hieroglyphic System
8.3 - Aztec Writing
8.5 - The Invention of the Cherokee Syllabary
8.6 - The Use of the Cherokee Syllabary
8.7 - The Cree Syllabary
8.8 - Other Post-Columbian Writing Traditions
8.9 - Writing and Its Uses
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Part V: Languages in Contact
Chapter 9: Multilingualism
9.1 - The Vaupés
9.2 - California
9.3 - The Inca Empire
9.4 - Paraguay
9.5 - Navajo Code Talkers
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Chapter 10: Lingua Francas
10.1 - Pidgins and Creoles
10.2 - Chinook Jargon
10.3 - Other American Indian Pidgins
10.4 - The Vaupés: Lingua Francas
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11.1 - Loanwords in Huasteca Nahuatl
11.2 - Lake Miwok: A Case of Borrowing and Structural Change
11.3 - Lexical Acculturation in a Colonial Setting
11.4 - A Shift to the Colonial Languages
11.5 - Mitchif: A Special Case
11.6 - Changes in the Americas' Colonial Languages
11.7 - Language Contact and Bilingualism
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Part VI: Languages in Time and Space
Chapter 12: Languages and Shared Histories
12.1 - The Cree Dialects
12.2 - The Uto-Aztecan Family
12.3 - The Possession of "Pet": An Areal Trait in the Southwest
12.4 - A Linguistic Area: Mesoamerica
12.5 - Sound Symbolism: A Diffusional Trait of the Pacific Coast
12.6 - California: Language Families and Diffusional Areas
12.7 - Discovering Remote Relationships
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13.1 - Navajo Etymologies, and Reconstructed Vocabulary
13.2 - The Algonquian Homeland
13.3 - The Numic Homelan
13.4 - Early Spanish and Aztec Loans in Northwest Mexico
13.5 - California Revisited
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14.1 - Eastern North America
14.2 - Western North America
14.3 - Middle America
14.4 - South America
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Consonants
Vowels
Additional Comments
Appendix 2: A List of Language Families of North America
Alphabetical Guide to the List
Language Families of North America
Bibliography
Index