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This volume includes stories from 13 languages of Northern California with word-by-word glosses and free translation, each accompanied by grammatical notes. This collection will be of interest to linguists, typologists, and aficionados of oral narrative, as well as to speakers and learners of Native American languages.

This volume includes 18 texts in a variety of genres from Northern Iorquoian languages with word-by-word glosses, making explicit the richness of Iroquoian grammar as it is used in context. This collection will be of interest to anthropologists, linguists, typologists, and aficionados of oral narrative, as well as to speakers and learners of Iroquoian languages.

This volume includes 4 tellings of the Northwest Coast legend of how the Sun was stolen and brought to Earth from four different Northwest Coast languages, two Salishan (Lushootseed and Halkomelem) and two Wakashan (Nitinaht and Kwak’wala). Each of the stories in this collection is presented in interlinearized format with full morpheme-by-morpheme glosses and English translations. This format makes explicit the structure of the language and illustrates the richness of grammar as it is used in context. These texts will be of interest to anthropologists, linguists, typologists, and aficionados of oral narrative, as well as to speakers and learners of Native American languages.