Lexical Reconstruction : The Case of the Proto-Athapaskan Kinship System (Paperback)

List of tables; List of maps; Foreword by Harry Hoijer; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. The controversy over Proto-Athapaskan kinship; 2. Lexical reconstruction; 3. The reconstruction of Proto-Athapaskan kinship; 4. Kinship-term patterns as bases for inferences about kinship organization; 5. Interpretation of Proto-Athapaskan terminology; 6. Approaches to the study of differentiation; 7. The Pacific subgroup; 8. Apachean; 9. Canadian differentiation; 10. The methods and results of prior reconstructions; 11. Ethnological implications; 12. Summary.