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Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists

Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists. Sally Rice University of Alberta. Ways of Becoming: Dynamic Processes in the Creation of Athapaskan Identities and Landscapes. SAA 2008 Vancouver, BA. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about

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Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists

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  1. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Sally Rice University of Alberta Ways of Becoming: Dynamic Processes in the Creation of Athapaskan Identities and Landscapes SAA 2008 Vancouver, BA

  2. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques (polysynthesism) (cognates) aspects of the languages that appeal to linguists vs. linguistic clues that are of use to archaeologists and anthropologists

  3. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  4. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  5. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  6. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  7. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  8. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  9. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: Vs, Ns, particles small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  10. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  11. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists ~30 extant languages very large & complex sound system “polysynthetic” [m-m-m-m-m]verb somewhat fusional [m-m-mnmn-m]verb verb = an array of prefixes + final stem head final, head marking [S O V, o..s..V] a classificatory verb system few POS categories: V, N, particle small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing Typological Overview

  12. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing why cognates are hard to find

  13. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life reliance on endolexicon suppletion redeployment vagueness, polysemy figurativity, noncompositionality small stem inventory (< 1300) verb heavy, noun light little lexical borrowing

  14. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life reliance on endolexicon

  15. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life suppletion

  16. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life redeployment

  17. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life redeployment

  18. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life redeployment

  19. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life redeployment (and stem variation)

  20. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life redeployment

  21. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life vagueness, polysemy

  22. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life polysemy

  23. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life figurativity

  24. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life non-compositionality

  25. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques Krauss (1969), Krauss & Leer (1981) 29 languages (µ < 10) 270 reconstructed forms / cognate “sets” focus on Na-Dene comparison and PA reconstruction Cook (2004) 7 languages 37 cognate sets focus on Apachean and Northern relationships

  26. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques Cook (2004)

  27. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques Cook (2004)

  28. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques Cook (2004)

  29. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques shrinking linguistic evidence vs. increasing physical evidence

  30. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques larger and less cherry-picked cognate inventory systematic and culturally informed semantic field analysis new sound recordings and transcriptions of relevant items digitized data, searchable database

  31. Received and Not-So-Received Wisdom about Athapaskan Linguistics for Archaeologists Typological Overview Facts of Lexical Life In Pursuit of Cognates and Calques

  32. Masi chok! Special thanks to the following speakers... Valerie Wood John Janvier Bruce Starlight Mary Koyina-Richardson Andy Norwegian Maureen Olsen ...and colleagues and research assistants: Tom Cook Greg Kondrak Stephanie Ball-Heming Jack Ives Eric Zhang & TAPoR sally.rice@ualberta.ca

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