Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 2 Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in Indigenous Languages of the Americas Edited by Andrea L. Berez, Jean Mulder, and Daisy Rosenblum May 2010 University of Hawai‘i Press ISBN 978-0-8248-3530-9

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Table of Contents

Front cover pdf
Front matter pdf
Table of contents pdf
Contributors pdf

Acknowledgments pdf

Foreword
Marianne Mithun
pp. iii-iv
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The Boasian tradition and contemporary practice in linguistic fieldwork in the Americas
Daisy Rosenblum and Andrea L. Berez
pp. 1–8
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Chapter 2. Sociopragmatic influences on the development and use of the discourse marker vet in Ixil Maya
Jule Gómez de García, Melissa Axelrod, and María Luz García
pp. 9–31
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Chapter 3. Classifying clitics in Sm'algyax: Approaching theory from the field
Jean Mulder and Holly Sellers
pp. 33–56
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Chapter 4. Noun class and number in Kiowa-Tanoan: Comparative-historical research and respecting speakers' rights in fieldwork
Logan Sutton
pp. 57–89
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Chapter 5. The story of *ô in the Cariban family
Spike Gildea, B.J. Hoff, and Sérgio Meira
pp. 91–123
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Chapter 6. Multiple functions, multiple techniques: The role of methodology in a study of Zapotec determiners
Donna Fenton
pp. 125–145
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Chapter 7. Middles and reflexives in Yucatec Maya: Trusting speaker intuition
Israel Martínez Corripio and Ricardo Maldonado
pp. 147–171
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Chapter 8. Studying Dena'ina discourse markers: Evidence from elicitation and narrative
Olga Charlotte Lovick
pp. 173–202
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Chapter 9. Be careful what you throw out: Gemination and tonal feet in Weledeh Dogrib
Alessandro Jaker
pp. 203–222
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Chapter 10. Revisiting the source: Dependent verbs in Sierra Popoluca (Mixe-Zoquean)
Lynda Boudreault
pp. 223–261
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