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Tables of Contents for Handbook of North American Indians
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Technical Alphabet
viii
Credits and Captions
x
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
16
Ives Goddard
The Description of the Native Languages of North America Before Boas
17
26
Ives Goddard
The Description of the Native Languages of North America: Boas and After
43
21
Marianne Mithun
Language and the Culture History of North America
64
47
Michael K. Foster
Borrowing
111
6
Catherine A. Callaghan
Geoffrey Gamble
Dynamics of Linguistic Contact
117
20
Michael Silverstein
Overview of General Characteristics
137
21
Marianne Mithun
Native Writing Systems
158
27
Willard B. Walker
Place-Names
185
15
Patricia O. Afable
Madison S. Beeler
Personal Names
200
22
David H. French
Kathrine S. French
The Ethnography of Speaking
222
22
Wick R. Miller
Discourse
244
31
M. Dale Kinkade
Anthony Mattina
Nonspeech Communication Systems
275
15
Allan R. Taylor
The Classification of the Native Languages of North America
290
35
Ives Goddard
Grammatical Sketches
Sketch of Central Alaskan Yupik, an Eskimoan Language
325
39
Osahito Miyaoka
Sketch of Hupa, an Athapaskan Language
364
26
Victor Golla
Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian Language
390
50
H.C. Wolfart
Sketch of Lakhota, a Siouan Language
440
43
David S. Rood
Allan R. Taylor
Sketch of the Zuni Language
483
24
Stanley Newman
Sketch of Eastern Pomo, a Pomoan, a Pomoan Language
507
44
Sally McLendon
Sketch of Seneca, an Iroquoian Language
551
29
Wallace L. Chafe
Sketch of Wichia, a Caddoan Language
580
29
David S. Rood
Sketch of Thompson, a Salishan Language
609
35
Laurence C. Thompson
M. Terry Thompson
Steven M. Egesdal
Sketch of Coahuilteco, a Language Isolate of Texas
644
22
Rudolph C. Troike
Sketch of Sahaptin, a Sahaptian Language
666
27
Bruce Rigsby
Noel Rude
Sketch of Shoshone, a Uto-Aztecan Language
693
28
Wick R. Miller
Sources
721
41
Herbert J. Landar
Contributors
762
2
Bibliography
764
162
Index
926