Golla Victor, O'Neill Sean (eds.). The Collected Works of Edward Sapir: Volume 14. Northwest California Linguistics

De Gruyter Mouton, 2001. — 1124 p.Edward Sapir (1884—1939) has been referred to as "one of the most brilliant scholars in linguistics and anthropology in our country" (Franz Boas) and as "one of the greatest figures in American humanistic scholarship" (Franklin Edgerton). His classic book, Language (1921), is still in use, and many of his papers in general linguistics, such as "Sound Patterns in Language" and "The Psychological Reality of Phonemes," stand also as classics. The development of the American descriptive school of structural linguistics, including the adoption of phonemic principles in the study of non-literary languages, was primarily due to him. The large body of work he carried out on Native American languages has been called "ground-breaking" and "monumental" and includes descriptive, historical, and comparative studies. They are of continuing importance and relevance to today's scholars.This volume contains Sapir's full edition of Hupa texts, with complete linguistic and textual annotations. The texts are accompanied by an analytic lexicon - a complete inventory of all stems and derivational bases contained in the corpus - and a detailed ethnographic glossary.Table of contents:
Frontispiece
Preface
Introduction
Hupa Texts, with Notes and Lexicon
Yurok and Chimariko Materials
Yurok Texts
Chimariko Linguistic Material
Appendix: Reports on Sapir's Northwest California Work
Letters from the field to A. L. Kroeber
Letters to J.P. Harrington regarding work on Chimariko
An Expedition to Ancient America
A Summary Report of Field Work among the Hupa, Summer 1927
Reminiscences about Edward Sapir (Fang-Kuei Li)
References
Index