Glenda Canadian Deer, Gunther Michelson, Karin Michelson

A Dictionary of Kanien'keha (Mohawk) with Connections to the Past

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Produktbeschreibung

Highlighting how important it is to preserve and maintain Indigenous languages, A Dictionary of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) with Connections to the Past provides a comprehensive linguistic record of this important Iroquoian language from the 1600s onwards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1200g
• ISBN-13: 9781487548452
• ISBN-10: 1487548451
• Artikelnr.: 67741528

Autorenporträt

Gunther Michelson (1920–2005) was a journalist with CBC Radio Canada and an independent scholar who immersed himself in the study of Haudenosaunee history, traditions, and language.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Preliminaries
1. Introduction
1.1 About Dictionaries
1.2. Orthography and Pronunciation Guide
1.2.1 Writing h and Glottal Stop
2. Kanien’kéha Dialects
3. Organization of Entries
4. Overview of Morphology
4.1 Minimal Verb and Noun Forms
4.2 Non-Modal Prefixes
4.3 The Reflexive and Semi-Reflexive Prefixes
4.4 Noun Incorporation
4.5 Derivational Suffixes
4.6 Aspects and Aspect Extensions
4.7 Locative Suffixes
4.8 Attributive Clitics
4.9 Representing Variant Forms
5. Works Cited in Entries
5.1 Early Seventeenth-Century Vocabularies
5.2 Seventeenth-Century Dictionaries: Bruyas, Galissionniere
5.3 Nineteenth-Century Dictionaries: Marcoux, Cuoq
5.4 Eighteenth-Century Sources
5.5 Other Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Sources
5.6 Sources on Other Languages
6. Final Remarks on Words and Dictionaries
Kanien’kéha-English Dictionary
English-Kanien’kéha Index
References
About Gunther Michelson