The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide Vol. 2

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization. Preface Table of contents VII Language revitalization 32 Reviving languages: Outcomes of a Mentor-Apprentice style learning study 33 Child and child-directed speech in North American languages 34 Decolonizing Indigenous language pedagogies: Additional language learning and teaching 35 Digital tools for language revitalization 36 Using archival materials for language reclamation 37 Changing notions of fieldwork VIII Language families and isolates 38 Inuit-Yupik-Unangan: An overview of the language family 39 Dene – Athabaskan 40 Algonquian 41 Michif 42 Tsimshianic 43 Wakashan Languages 44 Salish 45 Chinookan family, with special reference to Kiksht and notes on Chinuk Wawa 46 Sahaptian 47 Karuk 48 Wáˑšiw 49 Pomoan 50 California languages: Isolates and other languages 51 Chumashan 52 Yuman 53 Uto-Aztecan 54 Kiowa-Tanoan 55 Caddoan 56 Sketch of the Siouan Language Family 57 Chitimacha 58 Tunica 59 Muskogean 60 Iroquoian 61 Unclassified languages List of Authors Index of languages Index of names Index of subjects