Cambridge Language Surveys: The Languages of Native North America (Paperback)

Professor of Linguistics Marianne Mithun
Cambridge University Press
 9780521298759
0-521-29875-X

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several hundred languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges.

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to current linguistic theory. The book includes an overview of their special characteristics, descriptions of special styles, a catalog of the languages that details their locations, genetic affiliations, number of speakers, and major structural features, and lists published material on them.