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Marianne Mithun

Author of The Languages of Native North America

7+ Works 114 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Marianne Mithun is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Works by Marianne Mithun

The Languages of Native North America (1999) 96 copies, 1 review

Wadewayestanih: A Cayuga Teaching Grammar (1982) 7 copies

Northern Iroquoian texts (1980) 4 copies

Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages (1993) — Editor — 3 copies

GRAMMAR TUSCARORA (Garland studies in American Indian linguistics) (1976) 2 copies

Prosody, Grammar, and Discourse in Central Alaskin Yup'ik 1 copy

Prosody, grammar, and discourse in Central Alaskan Yup'ik (Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics 7) (1996) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (2003) — Contributor — 39 copies

Approaches to grammaticalization. Volume II, Focus on types of grammatical markers (1991) — Contributor — 11 copies

The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization (2011) — Contributor — 10 copies

Papers from the 5th International Conference on Historical Linguistics Referate von der Fünften Internationalen Konferenz für Historischen [sic] Sprachwissenschaft =… (1982) — Contributor — 8 copies

The Bloomsbury companion to syntax (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies

Languages across boundaries : studies in memory of Anna Siewierska (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies

Historical Syntax (Trends in Linguistics) (1984) — Contributor — 7 copies

Papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (1985) — Contributor — 6 copies

Historical linguistics 1997 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10-17 August 1997 (1998) — Contributor — 6 copies

Reconstructing Languages and Cultures (Trends in Linguistics) (1992) — Contributor — 5 copies

Historical linguistics 1989 papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Rutgers University, 14-18 August 1989 (1993) — Contributor — 5 copies

Cross-disciplinary issues in compounding (2010) — Contributor — 5 copies

Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (1980) — Contributor — 5 copies

Reconstructing grammar : comparative linguistics and grammaticalization (2000) — Contributor — 5 copies

Actualization linguistic change in progress (2001) — Contributor — 4 copies

Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-1 (2001) — Contributor — 4 copies

Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (1982) — Contributor — 3 copies

Boundaries of morphology and syntax (1999) — Contributor — 3 copies

Historical linguistics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995. – Volume 1: General issues and… (2000) — Contributor — 3 copies

Language typology 1988 typological models in reconstruction (1991) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Aboriginal Languages (4) aboriginal linguistics (1) Cayuga (2) Cayuga Teaching Grammar (3) Eskimo-Aleut (2) First Nations (2) grammar (3) Indians (3) indigenous (3) Iroquoian (3) Iroquoian Linguistics (1) language (21) language survey (2) languages (3) linguistics (29) native (1) Native America (2) Native American (5) Native American languages (6) Native North America (2) non-fiction (6) North America (2) north american languages (2) Northern Iroquoian Texts (1) reference (2) Romance languages--Congresses (1) room:208 (1) Shelf-5:D (1) Shelf-6:B (1) textbook (2)

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The languages of native North America by Marianne Mithun

5 stars – minus a 1/2 star for the lousy typography and the poor printing quality

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Oct 5, 2007 (Edited)

Awards

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Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

The Languages of Native North America (2002)

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Rating: ½ 4.5

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