Books in the Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas series

Crow, a Siouan language spoken on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, remains one of the most vital Native American languages, with several thousand speakers. This work gives a detailed description of the Crow language in a contemporary linguistic framework. It also offers an analysis of the crucial elements of the language.

At the time of European contact with Native communities, the Caddos (who call themselves the Hasinai) were accomplished traders living in the southern plains. Drawing on interviews with Caddo speakers, tapes made by earlier researchers, and written accounts, this work provides an overview and analysis of Caddo grammar.

West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this highly nuanced study of West Greenlandic, linguist Anna Berge examines how the speaker's role affects syntactic structures within discourse. Also included are transcripts of conversations with fluent Native speakers.

First comprehensive study of this endangered language and one of the few reference grammars of this language family

Presents an overview of the Miami-Illinois language. This work reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region to the south of Lake Michigan in present-day Illinois and Indiana.

A Grammar of Patwin brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published description of the Patwin language.