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| Francis Drake’s 1579 Voyage: Assessing Linguistic Evidence for an Oregon Landing | John Lyon | 1 |
| On the Development of the Proto–Northern Jê Rhotic in Panará Historical Phonology | Fernando O. de Carvalho | 52 |
| Plains Cree pêyâhtikowêwin: The Ethic of Talking Softly | Jeffrey Muehlbauer | 79 |
Book Reviews |
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| A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers (Ives Goddard and Lucy Thomason) | Philip S. LeSourd | 99 |
| Communities of Practice: An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning (Patrick Marlow and Sabine Siekmann, editors) | Patrick Moore | 102 |
| Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages (Nancy C. Dorian) | Lenore A. Grenoble | 104 |
Abstract. This article surveys and analyzes data from a number of aboriginal languages of Oregon, investigating the hypothesis that Sir Francis Drake may have landed somewhere on the Oregon coast in 1579 rather than in California, as is usually assumed. This study is partially motivated by conflicting navigational records in surviving accounts of Drake’s voyage. There is no hard linguistic evidence for an Oregon landing, though there are a few plausible semantic and phonetic matches between items on Drake’s word list and data from Oregon languages. Though themselves inconclusive as evidence, these data should be reconsidered in light of any new archaeological evidence.
Abstract. Comparative evidence is provided for a number of developments in the historical phonology of Panará, a Jê language spoken in central Brazil, in particular for the reflexes of the rhotic *ɾ reconstructed for the Proto–Northern Jê ancestral language (and, in many cases, for Proto-Jê as well). Aside from their contributions to the understanding of a family much of whose history remains unknown, the diachronic hypotheses presented and evaluated here touch on issues of general interest for the field of historical linguistics, such as the phonetic grounding of sound change and its relation to regularity, the detection of borrowings, and the nature of subgrouping arguments.
Abstract. Cree speakers often characterize their language as “soft.” What this means is explored in the context of various philosophical concepts developed by the Cree themselves for the analysis and understanding of speech, with the aid of parts of the Hymes model for the ethnography of speaking, and is related to a paradigm of grammatical contrasts produced by a Cree elder.
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