Download or read book Gros Ventre Grammar Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose of this book: This grammar is designed to be used by people already somewhat familiar with Algonquian languages as well as with English-language grammatical terms, though an attempt has been made to avoid grammatical and linguistic terminology where possible. This test is not designed as a progressive grammar for learning the Gros Ventre language, as a language textbook would be. Rather, it covers a series of general topics, and thus is more of a reference grammar sketch, though it does progress from less to more complex grammatical topics to a certain extent.
Download or read book The Aaniiih Gros Ventre Language written by Andrew Cowell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) Language is a tribally centered reference grammar of Aaniiih. A member of the Algonquian language family, Aaniiih is most closely related to the Arapaho language. Previously spoken in areas of central and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan and northern Montana, the language is now spoken on the Fort Belknap Reservation in north central Montana. Andrew Cowell and Terry Brockie worked with tribal members to retranscribe historical and archival documentation of the language in order to revitalize it. This grammar provides a comprehensive description of the language throughout all its stages, focusing on the phonology and morphology of new word formation; on levels of politeness in the language and strategies for indirectness; and on salient cultural topics such as place-names, personal names, prayer, and traditional narrative, as well as greetings, departures, and a rich variety of exclamations and interjections. The grammar describes both classical (pre-reservation) and modern Aaniiih, allowing contemporary revivers of the language to fully understand both and to choose which to focus on for teaching and learning. The Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) Language is an essential guide to assisting with the Gros Ventre nation’s efforts to teach and revitalize its language in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book New Voices for Old Words written by David J. Costa and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Download or read book Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa written by Washington Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Languages of Native North America written by Marianne Mithun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Download or read book The Algonquian Inverse written by Will Oxford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a definitive reference for the inverse morphology of the Algonquian languages, which has attracted much attention in typological and theoretical linguistics. Will Oxford describes the patterning of inverse morphology across the Algonquian family and presents a framework for understanding the structure and function of the Algonquian inverse that is empirically driven and typologically grounded. He presents data from all documented Algonquian languages and considers not only the morphology of the inverse construction but also its syntax and pragmatics, giving equal weight to diachronic, typological, functional, and formal perspectives. From the integration of these perspectives, a simple and coherent understanding of the nature of the inverse emerges. The key proposal is that the inverse is "deep" in some contexts and "shallow" in others. In interactions between two third persons, the inverse is a "deep" patient voice construction that inverts the canonical morphology, syntax, and pragmatics of a transitive clause. In interactions between a third person and a first or second person, the inverse is a "shallow" hierarchical agreement pattern implemented through a spurious use of patient voice morphology, inverting the canonical morphology of a transitive clause but having no effect on syntax or pragmatics. This split analysis, which reflects the likely diachronic development of the Algonquian inverse, is argued to have various benefits, including the resolution of a longstanding controversy over the syntactic status of the inverse.
Download or read book Catalog to Manuscripts at the National Anthropological Archives Department of Anthropology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington D C written by National Anthropological Archives and published by Boston, Mass. : Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warembori Grammar Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammatical sketch written by Lilias W. Brebner and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Grammar Sketch of Demena written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas of the World s Languages written by R.E. Asher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Download or read book The American Indian Language and Literature written by Jack W. Marken and published by A H M Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages written by James Constantine Pilling and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of works in or on Algonquian dialects, including Montagnais and Cree. Has chronological index.
Download or read book Anthropology on the Great Plains written by W. Raymond Wood and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY J W POWELL DIRECTOR BULLETIN 13 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES written by JAMES CONSTANTINE PILLING and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
