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Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more...
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Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
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Price: $100.00
Pages: 400
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 20 September 2011
Trim Size: 11.00 X 8.50 in
ISBN: 9780520266674
Format: Hardcover
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“A once-in-a-hundred year work which is not only scholarly, well-footnoted, well-referenced, and bibliographically complete. It is also readable and enjoyable. . . . A landmark in the study of native Californian languages. . . . This is a book to be used, not just admired.”


"This monograph on the indigenous languages of California 'has been long in coming,' as Golla himself points out in the preface, but the wait has been worth it. . . . This book is more than just an authoritative statement of the accumulated wisdom concerning the languages of a particular region. It is also a pleasure to read and to behold. Golla’s writing style is lucid and engaging; a plethora of tables, maps, and photographs adorn the pages, and the University of California Press has done an outstanding job on the visual presentation of information. Golla’s enthusiasm for California’s indigenous languages and cultures, and his interest in the scholars and scholarly traditions by which they are known outside of indigenous communities themselves, shine through on every page."


"This is probably the most valuable book ever published on California Indian languages and cultures, and it should be on the shelf of any serious California scholar."


"Bringing together the linguistic records of explorers and missionaries, as well as the research of anthropologists Alfred Kroeber, John P. Harrington, and C. Hart Merriam, this is an essential reference for linguistics collections."


"A lush and handy primer."
Victor Golla, a leading expert on the native languages of California, is Professor of Anthropology at Humboldt State University. He is the editor of The Sapir-Kroeber Correspondence: Letters Between Edward Sapir and Alfred Kroeber, 1905–1925 and of several volumes of The Collected Works of Edward Sapir.
PREFACE
PHONETIC ORTHOGRAPHY

PART ONE Introduction: Defining California as a Sociolinguistic Area
1.1 Diversity 
1.2 Tribelet and Language
1.3 Symbolic Function of California Languages
1.4 Languages and Migration
1.5 Multilingualism
1.6 Language Families and Phyla

PART TWO History of Study

Before Linguistics 
2.1 Earliest Attestations
2.2 Jesuit Missionaries in Baja California 
2.3 Franciscans in Alta California
2.4 Visitors and Collectors, 1780–1880

Linguistic Scholarship 
2.5 Early Research Linguistics, 1865–1900 
2.6 The Kroeber Era, 1900 to World War II
2.7 Independent Scholars, 1900–1940
2.8 Structural Linguists
2.9 The Survey of California (and Other) Indian Languages
2.10 The Contemporary Scene: Continuing Documentation and Research within and beyond the Academy

PART THREE Languages and Language Families

Algic Languages
3.1 California Algic Languages (Ritwan)
3.2 Wiyot
3.3 Yurok

Athabaskan (Na-Dene) Languages 
3.4 The Pacific Coast Athabaskan Languages
3.5 Lower Columbia Athabaskan (Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai)
3.6 Oregon Athabaskan Languages
3.7 California Athabaskan Languages

Hokan Languages
3.8 The Hokan Phylum
3.9 Karuk 
3.10 Chimariko
3.11 Shastan Languages
3.12 Palaihnihan Languages
3.13 Yana
3.14 Washo
3.15 Pomo Languages
3.16 Esselen
3.17 Salinan
3.18 Yuman Languages
3.19 Cochimí and the Cochimí-Yuman Relationship
3.20 Seri

Penutian Languages
3.21 The Penutian Phylum
3.22 Takelma 
3.23 Klamath-Modoc
3.24 Maiduan Languages
3.25 Wintuan Languages 
3.26 Yokuts
3.27 Miwok Languages 
3.28 Costanoan (Ohlone) Languages
3.29 Utian

Uto-Aztecan Languages
3.30 Uto-Aztecan and Northern Uto-Aztecan
3.31 Numic Languages
3.32 Takic Languages
3.33 Tubatulabal
3.34 Giamina (Omomil)

Languages of Uncertain Affiliation
3.35 Yukian Languages
3.36 Chumash Languages
3.37 Southern Baja California Languages: Monqui, Waikuri, and Pericú

PART FOUR Typological and Areal Features: California as a Linguistic Area

Phonology
4.1 Consonants
4.2 Vowels
4.3 Pitch Accent and Tone

Grammar
4.4 Morphological Processes
4.5 Structural Patterns
4.6 Case Marking
4.7 Marking of Plurality
4.8 Stem Derivation
4.9 Switch Reference

Linguistic Culture
4.10 Numerals
4.11 Names
4.12 Diminutive and Other Expressive Symbolism
4.13 Social and Situational Varieties
4.14 Precontact Lexical Borrowing
4.15 Postcontact Lexical Borrowing

PART FIVE Linguistic Prehistory
5.1 The Oldest Stratum? Waikuri, Chumash, Yukian
5.2 Hokan
5.3 Penutian 
5.4 Uto-Aztecan
5.5 Algic 
5.6 Athabaskan

APPENDIX A. C. HART MERRIAM'S VOCABULARIES AND NATURAL HISTORY WORD LISTS FOR CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES
APPENDIX B. MATERIALS ON CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES IN THE PAPERS OF JOHN PEABODY HARRINGTON
APPENDIX C. PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS WIDELY USED IN CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGE MATERIALS
APPENDIX D. BASIC NUMERALS IN SELECTED CALIFORNIA LANGUAGES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX