BIC SubjectsLinguistics/North & Central American indigenous languages

Titles

Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology

Edited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein

Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant theoretical interest, detailed descriptions of valence-changing phenomena in Zapotec are rare, comparative studies are practically… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 110] 2015. xiii, 385 pp.

“And he knew our language”: Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast

Marcus Tomalin

This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 116] 2011. xi, 203 pp. | open access