Download or read book A Description of the Patwin Language written by Lewis C. Lawyer and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of the Patwin language. Patwin is a Native American language native to the southwestern drainage of the Sacramento River in California. It is a member of the Wintuan language family, along with Wintu and Nomlaki. Formerly spoken by a population of about 6,000-30,000 (Kroeber 1932; Cook 1976; Whistler 1976; Golla 2011), there are now only two people known to me who identify as first language speakers of Patwin. Additionally, some individuals are learning the language as adults or in school as part of community-based language revitalization programs (Dubin 2010). Prior to this dissertation, there have been three published articles on aspects of Patwin grammar (Whistler 1981, 1986; Lawyer 2015) and two published stories in Patwin (Whistler 1977a, 1978). A good characterization of Patwin kinship terminology can be found in Whistler's dissertation (Whistler 1980), and Whistler's Master's thesis (1976) contains a thorough characterization of Patwin plant and animal nomenclature. The rest of the record of the Patwin language has been scattered in archives throughout the country. There are extensive collections of archived field notes (Kroeber NB; Merriam NB; Bright NB; Ultan NB; Whistler NB; etc.) and a few important sound recordings (Barrett AU; Bright AU; Swadesh and Melton AU; Ultan AU[b],[a]; Whistler AU). In addition to these primary sources, some drafts of linguistic analyses are available in archives: de Angulo (GR), Radin (GR), Bright (GR), Morgan (1971), and Whistler (MS).This dissertation distills the unruly Patwin archive into a thorough and accurate description of the language, so that scholars in academia and in Native communities can have a detailed, organized, and reliable reference for this language. The description includes each of the areas traditionally described in grammars: phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns), morphology (word structure), and syntax (sentence structure). Examples drawn directly from the archival record are used to illustrate every detail, creating a description firmly grounded in real data. To make the dissertation maximally useful as a reference grammar, the prose descriptions are complemented with quick-reference summaries set apart in text boxes. The dissertation also provides a comprehensive catalog of Patwin sources, including discussions of where documentation for each individual dialect of Patwin can be found. Following is a brief synopsis of each chapter of the dissertation, mentioning some of the more salient findings. Chapter 1: Introduction: The language is introduced, including its dialects, geography, and genetic affiliation. Brief biographical sketches are given for each of the speakers whose materials were consulted in the creation of the grammar, noting especially the dialect(s) they spoke. Each researcher whose work was consulted is also briefly discussed, noting especially any idiosyncrasies such as unusual phonetic transcription. Chapter 2: Phonemics and phonetics: The phonemic inventory is introduced, and the phonetic realization of each phonemic category is discussed. Patwin is notable for having 4 laryngeal series of oral stops, differentiated by a combination of voice onset time (aspirated /pÊʻ, tÊʻ, kÊʻ/, voiceless unaspirated /p, t, k/, voiced /b, d/) and airstream initiation (glottalized /pÊơ, tÊơ, kÊơ/ vs. non-glottalized). A mixture of qualitative and quantitative methodology is used in phonetic descriptions. This chapter serves as a demonstration of the level of detail that can be achieved in a phonetic study using exclusively archival materials. Chapter 3: Phonology: Segmental, metrical, and phrasal phonology is discussed here. Here and throughout the dissertation, unexpected irregularities are not glossed over, but are explicitly discussed. For example: Syllable structure is generally CV(C), though a few words (e.g. layuk 'good') have reduced forms with aberrant CVCC syllables (e.g. /layk/). Dialect variation in the realization of stress is also discussed. Chapters 4-6: Nominals and their modifiers: Nominals are inflected for case (subjective, objective, possessive, and a variety of semantic cases) and sometimes number. Modifiers (adjectives, numerals, etc.) are often not adjacent to the head noun, resulting in what could be described as discontinuous constituents. Kinship terms are a special category of nominals, characterized by unique possessive morphology, unique casemarking, and obligatory number marking. There are over 100 definite pronouns, and the paradigm shows an intricate pattern of variation across dialects. Chapter 8: The verb: The verb has complicated morphology, including mutation of the stem itself (stem ablaut and reduplication). Verbs also inflect for tense, aspect, mood, and interrogativity. Verbs may take one or more voice suffixes, such as passive, causative, or reciprocal. Verbs generally do not agree with the subject, but verbs in the hortative mood are an exception. Additionally, certain verb stems reflect the animacy of the object. Chapter 9: The clause: The clause consists of a predicate and its arguments and adjuncts. The predicate is typically a verb, though it may be a nominal. Inflectional information is expressed with suffixes on the verb, or on the auxiliary verb when present. Optional clausal particles also play a role in determining the grammatical mood of the clause (declarative, interrogative, irrealis, or reportative). A sentence may consist of more than one clause, in a clause chaining construction. Negation is expressed with a combination of bound morphology on the verb and often the presence of the negative auxiliary Ê4ele

Download or read book A Grammar of Patwin written by Lewis C. Lawyer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Origin of the Earth and Moon written by Shirley Silver and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Download or read book Proto Wintun written by Alice Shepherd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Trails Tribelets and Territories written by Evan B. Elliott and published by Evan B. Elliott. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: This thesis synthesizes extant information relating to the prehistory of the upper Cache Creek watershed that helps to contextualize prehistoric cultural resources in the Bureau of Land Management Indian Valley/ Walker Ridge Recreation Area (IV/WRRA), Lake and Colusa Counties, California. The purpose is to create an inventory document that provides cultural resource management practitioners and land managers with an informed basis for understanding the study area in terms of the cultural resources, their environment, land use in the past, and the need for further work. Methods: Archival, literature, and geographical information systems research was conducted to: (1) integrate ethnographies of the Hill Patwin to provide context for interpretation of prehistoric cultural resources; (2) synthesize the regional prehistories of the southern North Coast Ranges and the Sacramento Valley; (3) determine the location and the scope of previous archaeological surveys and archaeological sites within the IV/WRRA and vicinity; and (4) investigate management obligations and create recommendations for the management of cultural resources within the IV/WRRA. Findings: The IV/WRRA and surrounding area was not simply a backwater located between two more populated and culturally elaborate regions. It had a large native population with multiple sociopolitical groups and contained a portion of the extensive exchange network that connected the Pacific coast, the Clear Lake basin, the Central Valley, and the Sierra Nevada. This makes it an excellent locale for the study of cultural transmission between these regions. Conclusions: The upper Cache Creek watershed was a locus for cultural exchange between the Clear Lake basin and the Central Valley, and between the Pomo peoples and the River Patwin. The prehistoric inhabitants, the Hill Patwin, were tied culturally and socially to both groups and culture regions. Greater inclusion of the Hill Patwin into the North Coast Ranges cultural region and viewing them as the locus for the movement and transmission of cultural practices and elements between these two regions provides a better basis of analysis of the late prehistoric era of the area. Social boundary studies and material culture studies are two avenues of research that can greatly contribute to the understanding of the social dynamics of the region. Many aspects of material culture can be examined to look at the similarities and differences between these different groups and the ways that these characteristics may have been passed through this region.

Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America written by Carmen Dagostino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Download or read book California Indian Languages written by Victor Golla and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.

Download or read book The Indigenous Languages of the Americas written by Lyle Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.

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Download or read book California Archaeology written by Michael J. Moratto and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Archaeology provides a compilation of knowledge for archeologists who are not California specialists. This book explains important cultural events and patterns discovered archeologically. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of California's historic and ancient environments as well as the evidence of Pleistocene human activity. This text then examines the glacial and other environmental conditions that would have influenced the origins, adaptations, and spread of the earliest North Americans. Other chapters consider how California's past is relevant to a wider understanding of human behavior. This book discusses as well the perceptions of Central Coast and San Francisco Bay region prehistory that have changed rapidly as a result of intensive fieldwork performed to comply with environmental law. The final chapter deals with the data of historical linguistics, which indicate something of the cultural relationships and events that might have occurred in the past. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists.

Download or read book The Intergenerational Leadership of the Patwin People written by Douglas J. Worley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research explores how each generation at Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (YDWN) contributed to the establishment of a language program for their people’s language. From 2007 -2017, YDWN engaged in intellectual, visual and visionary sovereignty through the practice of creating space to reimage, reshape and redefine what it means to be Patwin, California Indian, and Native American. Building on the definition of sovereignty in relation to the historical narrative by Native historians to revision the way history has been told this research explores intellectual sovereignty toward a more accurate telling of the Patwin people and their image. The Patwin enacted intellectual & visual sovereignty to shift the image and narrative of what it means to be Patwin. Finally, by shifting the narrative and interpretation to tell a more complete story of the Patwin people and the various relatives they identify with, this research explores how different generations of Patwin envisioned, participated in and promoted visionary sovereignty for a healthier future for Native peoples.

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 1687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.

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Download or read book Language Contact and Change in the Americas written by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially with regard to contact phenomena in languages of North America, Meso-America and South America. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics, including sound change, morphosyntactic change, lexical semantics, grammaticalization, language endangerment, and discourse-pragmatic change. With chapters from distinguished scholars and talented newcomers alike, this book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in internally- and externally-motivated language change.

Download or read book American Indian Languages written by Lyle Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.

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