American Anthropologist 1903 Vol 5

Author : F. W. Hodge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267596003
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book American Anthropologist, 1903, Vol. 5 written by F. W. Hodge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Anthropologist, 1903, Vol. 5: Organ of the American Anthropological Association, the Anthropological Society of Washington, and the American Ethnological Society of New York This diversity is the most marked characteristic of California as an aboriginal linguistic area. America as a whole is a region of great linguistic diversity, and this tendency toward diversification reaches its climax in California, where twenty-two distinct stocks of languages are Spoken within the boundaries of the state, according to Powell's accepted classification. That nearly half of the linguistic families represented in the United States should thus occur within so small an area marks California as perhaps the most remarkable region for linguistic diversity known. The structural similarity of some of these distinct stocks evidently has a bearing on the larger question of the extreme diversity of the region, which is the funda mental problem oi California linguistics. An attempt was therefore made by the writers to secure, through field investigation, informa tion concerning the grammatical structure of all Californian lan guages. This task was rendered necessary by the fact that with one or two exceptions the grammar of these languages was wholly nu known. On the material thus collected this paper is based. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.