The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages 1138628743, 9781138628748

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The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages
 1138628743, 9781138628748

Table of contents :
Cover
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages
Contents
Contributors
Editor's Note
Part I - Common Phenomena in North American Languages
1. Phonological Inventories
2. Segmental Processes
3. Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent
4. Prosodic Morphology and Reduplication
5. The Expanded NP: Numbers, Possessors, Gender, Animacy, and Classifiers
6. Morphosyntactic Strategies in Locative Description
7. Agreement and Related Phenomena in North American Languages
8. Inverse Systems and Person Hierarchy Effects
9. Switch-reference in American Languages: A Synthetic Overview
10. Ergativity and Ergativity Splits
11. Noun Incorporation and Polysynthesis
12. Antipassives
13. Evidentials and Modals
14. Quantification
Part II - Selected Language Families and Issues in the Historical Linguistics of North America
15. Otomanguean Languages
16. Mayan Languages
17. Muskogean Languages
18. Iriquoian Languages
19. Salish Languages
20. The Na-Dene Languages
21. Algonquian Languages
22. Eskimo-Aleut
23. Evaluating Proposals for Long-Distance Genetic Relationships: Uto-Aztecan vs. Plateau Penutian
24. Areal Linguistics and Linguistic Areas in California
Language Index
Subject Index

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