Overview
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 GBP41.9 5 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
Full Product Details
Author: John Enrico
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 9.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 2.177kg
ISBN: 9780803218222
ISBN 10: 0803218222
Pages: 1387
Publication Date: 01 June 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""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
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
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 -- Keren Rice 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 -- Robert D. Van Valin Thanks to the long-term research program of John Enrico, the Haida language of the Queen Charlotte Islands will be one of the best documented indigenous languages of North America... There is exceptional depth and breadth to Enrico's research program... [a] massively exemplified and annotated study. -James Kari, Journal of Anthropological Research -- James Kari Journal of Anthropological Research
Author Information
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.
