Lewis C. Lawyer

Grammar of Patwin (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Native American language formerly spoken in hundreds of communities in the interior of California, Patwin (also known as Wintun T'ewe) is now spoken by a small but growing number of language revitalizationists and their students. 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. This book shines a light on the knowledge of past speakers and researchers with a clear and well-organized description supported by ample archival evidence. Lewis C. Lawyer addresses the full range of grammatical structure with chapters on phonetics, phonology, nominals, nominal modifiers, spatial terms, verbs, and clauses. At every level of grammatical structure there is notable variation between dialects, and this variation is painstakingly described. An introductory chapter situates the language geographically and historically and also gives a detailed account of previous work on the language and of the archival materials on which the study is based. Throughout the process of writing this book, Lawyer remained in contact with Patwin communities and individuals, who helped to ensure that the content is appropriate from a cultural perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496222770
• Artikelnr.: 72453855

Autorenporträt

Lewis C. Lawyer is an independent scholar and is the reference systems manager at Cambridge University Press & Assessment.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Alphabetical List of Morphemes
1. Background
1.1. The Patwin Language
1.2. Materials
1.3. Grammaticography
1.4. Orthography and Formatting
2. Phonemics and Phonetics
2.1. Phoneme Inventory
2.2. Minimal Pairs
2.3. Detailed Phonetic and Phonemic Descriptions
2.4. Stress and Intonation
3. Phonology
3.1. Phonotactics
3.2. The Syllable
3.3. Words and Stems
3.4. Stress Assignment and Syllable Weights
3.5. Segmental Phenomena
3.6. Reduplication
3.7. Loanwords
4. Nominals and Nominal Morphology
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Nouns
4.3. Kinship Terms
4.4. Nominalized Verbs
4.5. Number Marking
4.6. Case Marking
4.7. Absolutive Suffix
4.8. Vocatives
4.9. Order of Morphemes
4.10. Verbalization
4.11. Compound Constructions
5. Pronouns
5.1. Tables of Forms
5.2. Roots
5.3. Suffixes
5.4. Verbalization
5.5. In-Law Address Forms
5.6. Doubled Pronouns
6. Nominal Modifiers and the Noun Phrase
6.1. Pronouns as Modifiers
6.2. Adjectives
6.3. Numerals
6.4. Quantifiers
6.5. Relative Clauses
6.6. Nominal Coordination
6.7. Headless and Discontinuous Noun Phrases
7. Directionals and Cardinals
7.1. Directionals
7.2. Cardinals
8. The Verb and Verbal Morphology
8.1. The Verb Stem
8.2. Verbal Suffixes
8.3. Event and Participant Plurality
8.4. Nominalization
8.5. Verb Compounding
8.6. Citation Forms
9. The Clause
9.1. Auxiliary Verbs
9.2. Particles
9.3. Subordinate Clauses
9.4. Negation
9.5. Comparative Constructions
9.6. Clause Coordination with Connector /=¿u/ ‘CONN’
Appendix: Attested Pronouns by Dialect
A.1. Tables of Attested Pronouns by Dialect
A.2. Discussion of Pronoun Data
Notes
References