The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Volume 1

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 List of North American families, languages, and dialects Maps I Sounds and sound structure 1 Acoustic phonetics 2 Articulatory phonetics 3 Tone 4 Segmental phonology 5 Prosodic morphology 6 Word prosody 7 Prosody beyond the word II Words 8 What is a word? 9 Word classes III Sentences 10 Syntax within the clause 11 Negatives 12 Questions and requests in North American languages 13 Information structure 14 Clause-combining: Relative clauses 15 Clause combining: Syntax of subordination and complementation 16 Switch-reference and event cohesion IV Discourse 17 Verbal art 18 Conversation structure V Meaning 19 Lexicalization and lexical meaning 20 Lexicography 21 Evidentiality 22 Pluractionality and distributivity 23 Mass and count nouns 24 Sense of place: Space, landscape, and orientation 25 A sense of time and world 26 Pragmatics VI Languages over space and time 27 Languages as dynamic systems: How grammar can emerge 28 Language contact and linguistic areas 29 Language classification 30 Archival-based sociolinguistic variation 31 Community-based sociolinguistic variation