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Haida Syntax, 2-Volume Set
John Enrico, Cloth: 2003, xiii,
1387, CIP.LC 2002075095 ISBN : 0-8032-1822-2
Studies in the Anthropology of North American
Indians Series
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"Haida Syntax makes an
enormous contribution to our understanding of the syntax
and semantics of Haida. There is very little published
material available on this language, and in this book
John Enrico brings together a rich range of syntactic
and semantic material on the language. . . . A book
of this magnitude will make Haida one of the syntactically
best described languages."—Keren Rice, author
of Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation
in the Athapaskan Verb.
"One of the most valuable features
of Haida Syntax is the semantic detail that
is given regarding verbs, constructions, etc. This will
be immensely useful to linguists of all theoretical
persuasions, as they try their hand at analyzing this
fascinating language within their own theoretical framework.
Also, the extensive discussion of focus and its role
within the grammar is very valuable."—Robert
D. Van Valin, author of An Introduction to Syntax.
The Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte
Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island
off the coast of southern Alaska. Their language, distinct
from their Northwest Coast neighbors, is spoken today
by a few elders and is in danger of becoming extinct,
despite efforts by the community to save it. Intimately
familiar with the Haida language, John Enrico bases
this comprehensive description of the syntax of two
Haida dialects on his twenty-five years of fieldwork
in the Haida community and on the materials collected
by the anthropologist John Swanton in the early twentieth
century. This synthesis of the syntax of the Haida language
provides an exemplary reference work of the language
for the Haida community and for scholars.
John Enrico, an independent scholar,
is the author of The Lexical Phonology of Masset
Haida, editor and translator of Skidegate Haida
Myths and Histories, and coauthor (with Wendy Bross
Stuart) of Northern Haida Songs (Nebraska 1996).
He is currently working on a dictionary of the three
extant Haida dialects.
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