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3 books match the query 'Mithun, Marianne'

cover of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar

Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar

Edited by Steven Davis and Marianne Mithun

University of Texas Press, 1979

This volume presents significant developments in the field of Montague Grammar and outlines its past and future contributions to philosophy and linguistics. The contents are as follows:

Introduction by Steven Davis and Marianne Mithun

Emmon Bach, "Montague Grammar and Classical Transformational Grammar"

Barbara H. Partee, "Constraining Transformational Montague Grammar: A Framework and a Fragment"

James D. McCawley, "Helpful Hints to the Ordinary Working Montague Grammarian"

Terence Parsons, "Type Theory and Ordinary Language"

David R. Dowty, "Dative 'Movement' and Thomason's Extensions of Montague Grammar"

Muffy E. A. Siegel, "Measure Adjectives in Montague Grammar"

Michael Bennett, "Mass Nouns and Mass Terms in Montague Grammar"

Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof, "Infinitives and Context in Montague Grammar"

James Waldo, "A PTQ Semantics for Sortal Incorrectness"

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cover of Northern Iroquoian Texts

Northern Iroquoian Texts

Marianne Mithun and Hanni Woodbury

University of Chicago Press Journals, 1980

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.
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cover of The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment

The Languages of Native America

Historical and Comparative Assessment

Edited by Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun

University of Texas Press, 1979

These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows:

  • Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective"
  • Ives Goddard, "Comparative Algonquian"
  • Marianne Mithun, "Iroquoian"
  • Wallace L. Chafe, "Caddoan"
  • David S. Rood, "Siouan"
  • Mary R. Haas, "Southeastern Languages"
  • James M. Crawford, "Timucua and Yuchi: Two Language Isolates of the Southeast"
  • Ives Goddard, "The Languages of South Texas and the Lower Rio Grande"
  • Irvine Davis, "The Kiowa-Tanoan, Keresan, and Zuni Languages"
  • Susan Steele, "Uto-Aztecan: An Assessment for Historical and Comparative Linguistics"
  • William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Hokan lnter-Branch Comparisons"
  • Margaret Langdon, "Some Thoughts on Hokan with Particular Reference to Pomoan and Yuman"
  • Michael Silverstein, "Penutian: An Assessment"
  • Laurence C. Thompson, "Salishan and the Northwest"
  • William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Wakashan Comparative Studies"
  • William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Chimakuan Comparative Studies"
  • Michael E. Krauss, "Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut"
  • Lyle Campbell, "Middle American Languages"
  • Eric S. Hamp, "A Glance from Now On"
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