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Alice Shepherd
Proto-Wintun
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$41.95, £24.95 paperback
978-0-520-09852-7
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264 pages, 7 x 10 inches, 18 tables
January 2006, Available worldwide
Categories: Language & Linguistics; California & the West; Linguistic Anthropology; Native American Ethnicity

This volume represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. It includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. The book fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of proto-languages for California Indian language families, both for theoretical purposes and deeper comparison with other proto- or pre-languages.
Alice Shepherd is an independent scholar working in California.