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Language Contact and Change in the Americas......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Language contact and change in the Americas......Page 10 1. The state of the art: A sketch......Page 11 2. The contributions in this book......Page 16 References......Page 20 Part I: North America: California......Page 24 1. Introduction......Page 26 2. Background......Page 27 3. Cultural similarities and trade contacts......Page 29 4. Linguistic similarities......Page 30 4.1 History of language contact in Round Valley......Page 31 4.2 Features shared by Yuki and Pomoan......Page 32 4.3 Features shared by Yuki with Wintun and Athabaskan......Page 33 4.4 Yuki and Wappo......Page 35 5. Conclusion......Page 37 References......Page 38 Appendix......Page 40 1. Introduction......Page 42 2. Diachrony in hierarchical systems......Page 43 3.1 Dependent-marked languages......Page 46 3.2 Agent-patient systems (both dependent‐ and head‐marked) ......Page 49 3.3.1 Hierarchical and inverse languages......Page 52 3.3.2 Languages with portmanteau affixes......Page 59 4.1 Passives in dependent-marked languages......Page 61
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- Author
- Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz, Carmen Jany
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Language