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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Anthropological Linguistics.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 51 (2009) through current issueLatest Articles: Anthropological LinguisticsTWOProject MUSE®Anthropological Linguistics1944-65270003-5483Latest articles in Anthropological Linguistics. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Alfred Kroeber’s Documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969709
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Few episodes in the history of American anthropology and linguistics are as disturbing as the treatment of six Inughuit (Polar Inuit) people brought from northern Greenland to New York City in 1897 at the behest of Franz Boas. Living in the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited place, later dubbed Thule by Knud Rasmussen, Inughuit people were objects of fascination for Americans and Europeans. This was partly due to their environment (with its three-and-a-half-month winter night and seven months of solid sea ice) and proximity to the North Pole, but also because of their apparent isolation. Inughuit people occupy “an island in an ocean of ice” (Gilberg 1984:577) and were thought to have been unaware of other
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/436/image/coversmallAlfred Kroeber’s Documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit)2025-09-15text/htmlen-USAlfred Kroeber’s Documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit)2025-09-152025TWOProject MUSE®1971552026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-15Consonant Gradation in Umóⁿhoⁿ and Paⁿka
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969710
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This article describes the phenomenon of consonant gradation in Umóⁿhoⁿ and Paⁿka (Omaha and Ponca), two varieties of a Siouan language of the United States. Siouan languages exhibit a peculiar type of linguistic iconicity affecting fricatives, where different points of articulation (alveolar, postalveolar, velar) symbolically refer to different grades. Among its emblematic examples are color distinctions, as in (1) for Umóⁿhoⁿ.1(1) zí ‘yellow’ (DD)  zhí ‘a color between red [. . .] and yellow [. . .] perhaps orange-red’ (DD)  x̬í ‘reddish-brown, the color of red clay’ (DD)2Sound symbolic consonant or vowel alternations, or both, are considered an areal feature of the western part of North America (Nichols 1971;
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/436/image/coversmallConsonant Gradation in Umóⁿhoⁿ and Paⁿka2025-09-15text/htmlen-USConsonant Gradation in Umóⁿhoⁿ and Paⁿka2025-09-152025TWOProject MUSE®1340882026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-15The Deer Farmer: Authority, Generation, and Improvisation in Nishnaabemwin
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969711
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In May 2019, at the Debajehmujig Storytellers1 Creation Centre in Manitowaning on Manitoulin Island, or Mnidoo Mnis,2 Ontario, seven elders and four theater interns began the first in a series of workshops—scheduled as six four-hour workshops over two weeks—designed to teach elders basic improvisational acting techniques. Elders aimed to develop performance skills for instructional Nishnaabemwin (Ojibwe language) videos while Creation Centre interns gained experience teaching improvisational performance. These workshops were an opportunity for elders and youth to collaboratively learn—an objective complicated by the generational social categories through which participants would structure discourse; in typical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/436/image/coversmallThe Deer Farmer: Authority, Generation, and Improvisation in Nishnaabemwin2025-09-15text/htmlen-USThe Deer Farmer: Authority, Generation, and Improvisation in Nishnaabemwin2025-09-152025TWOProject MUSE®901682026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-15Yukhíti Kóy: A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language by Geoffrey Kimball (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969712
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The published literature on the historic Indigenous languages of Texas is still rather limited (see, e.g., Goddard 1979). Harry Hoijer’s work with John Rush Buffalo on Tonkawa stands out as one of the more thorough examples of such documentation (Hoijer 1933, 1949a, 1972). (Wier’s [2018] recent updated version of Hoijer’s texts inexplicably seems never to mention John Rush Buffalo, thus erasing his contribution. Kimball, however, keeps both Kišyuc and Tottokš visible throughout his book.) Hoijer published not just the Boasian trilogy of grammar, texts, and dictionary, but also a grammatical sketch (1946) and a more detailed discussion of Tonkawa syntax and anaphora (1949b). In contrast, Nancy Hickerson’s (1988)
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/436/image/coversmallYukhíti Kóy: A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language by Geoffrey Kimball (review)2025-09-15text/htmlen-USYukhíti Kóy: A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language by Geoffrey Kimball (review)2025-09-152025TWOProject MUSE®318702026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-15Anthropological Linguistics: Index to Volume 64 (2022)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969713
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Costa, David J. Miami-Illinois Word Order: Second-Position Particles 86Daniels, Don Unusual Categories Can Be Stable: The Case of Proto-Sogeram Kin Terms 56Daudey, Henriëtte Color Terms in Wadu Pumi 36Dorais, Louis-Jacques Deciphering the Underlying Meanings of Inuit Words 205Fleck, David W. Why Is Matses an Onomatopoetic Language? 1Garrett, Andrew Alfred Kroeber’s Documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit) 263Green, Christopher R. Jarawan Numerals: Implications for History and Internal Classification 136Lesourd, Philip S. A Hero’s Quest: An Early Twentieth-Century Text in Passamaquoddy 114Marsault, Julie Consonant Gradation in Umóⁿhoⁿ and Paⁿka 299Pappas, Leah Multifunctionality in Hawu Demonstratives 230Siewert
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/436/image/coversmallAnthropological Linguistics: Index to Volume 64 (2022)2025-09-15text/htmlen-USAnthropological Linguistics: Index to Volume 64 (2022)2025-09-152025TWOProject MUSE®30732026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-15