Haida Syntax, 2-volume Set (Hardcover)

John Enrico

ISBN 10: 0803218222 / ISBN 13: 9780803218222

Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003

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Hardcover. 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. Also available Northern Haida Songs John Enrico & Wendy Bross Stuart 1996 0-8032-1816-8 HB GBP41.95 Haida Monumental Art: Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands George Macdonald 0-295-97362-5 PB GBP34.50 Haida Culture in Custody: The Massett Band Mary Lee Stearns 0-295-95763-8 HB GBP26.95 Northern Haida Mastercarvers Robin Wright 2001 0-295-998084-2 HB GBP35.95 Haa AAni, Our Land: Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use Walter Goldschmidt 1999 0-295-97639-X PB GBP26.95 During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson - A Haida Woman Margaret Blackman 0-295-97179-7 PB GBP12.50 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. This book offers a description of the syntax of two Haida dialects. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Haida Syntax, 2-volume Set (Hardcover)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803218222
• ISBN 13: 9780803218222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.