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Bloomfield Book Award Winner Selected
"The Linguistic Society of America will present the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award to California Indian Languages, by Victor Golla (University of California Press, 2011). California Indian Languages is a remarkable piece of documentary linguistics, achieving its goal "to be the reference of first resort" on the indigenous languages of California for both neophytes and experts. This work extensively documents the remarkable unity and diversity found in the languages of California."<http://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2012/12/04/bloomfield-book-award-winner-selected>"Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages."For more information on the book see:http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520266674