In honor of Professor Hill's courageous stand against mock Spanish in a state, Arizona, that has been taking anti-Latino nativism to new extremes, this selection examines Official English laws in light of the Southwest's hidden history of Latino lynching. It posits that suppress…
"Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students, but scholar Scott A.J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehensible system in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook. The only comprehensive introduction designed specifically for those new to th…
"The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages con…
"In Plateau Indian Ways with Words, Barbara Monroe makes visible the arts of persuasion of the Plateau Indians, whose ancestral grounds stretch from the Cascades to the Rockies, revealing a chain of cultural identification that predates the colonial period and continues to this …
This work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes of positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of fo…
A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.
Handbook of Amazonian languages. 1.
Based on extensive fieldwork, this text uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabury - the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language. It also explores the role of this language in the context of to…
This collection of twenty Ojibwa Indian stories is translated into English from the spoken texts of an Ojibwa woman from the Sault Ste. Marie area of northern Ontario, and includes lexical notes and a glossary.
"Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic Quebec community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French, and English are spoken. It examines the role that dominant and minority languages play in…
This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked…