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Musqueam Reference Grammar
Author | : Wayne P. Suttles |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0774810025 |
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Here is the long-awaited grammar of the Musqueam dialect of Halkomelem, which Wayne Suttles began work on in the late 1950s. The Musqueam people's aboriginal territory includes much of the Fraser Delta and the city of Vancouver. Halkomelem is one of the twenty-three languages that belong to the Salish Family. Suttles, an anthropologist, worked with knowledgeable older people, eliciting traditional stories, personal narratives, and ethnographic accounts. The grammar covers the usual topics of phonology, morphology, and syntax, illustrated by numerous sentences selected for their cultural relevance, providing insight into traditional practices, social relations, and sense of humor. With information on kinship, space and time, names of people and places, and the history of work on Halkomelem, this is perhaps the fullest account of any Salish language.
Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem
Author | : Brent Douglas Galloway |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 1729 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780520945180 |
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An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.
Marshallese Reference Grammar
Author | : Byron W. Bender,Alfred Capelle,Louise Pagotto |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2016-07-31 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780824859961 |
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This reference grammar covers the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It is the result of a long and sustained effort, inexorably entwined with that of the Marshallese-English Dictionary, published in 1976. Following a general introduction that situates the islands and their people in the cultural and historical context of Micronesia, chapters examine the sound system of Marshallese and survey the more important characteristics of the two major parts of speech, nouns and verbs; a section on the nine major verb classes is included. Special attention is given to a complex set of directional adverbs used in predicates of all sorts and from which back-and-forth verbs are formed. The final chapter analyzes Marshallese sentences, focusing on the sentences themselves and on considerations that apply at the sentence level. The identification of five case relations and of verbs that are impersonal provides explanations for seeming problems of grammatical agreement. The grammar avoids technical terminology, especially in the early chapters, and is aimed at educated laypersons—teachers and college students—who either speak the language or are motivated to learn it. It is rich with examples for each topic, including words exemplifying the contrasts in the sound system and sentences that highlight special points and intricacies in constructions such as cleft sentences and the phenomenon known as switch reference.
Haida Syntax
Author | : John Enrico |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0803218222 |
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The Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of southern Alaska. Their language, distinct from their Northwest Coast neighbors, is spoken today by a few elders and is in danger of becoming extinct, despite efforts by the community to save it. Intimately familiar with the Haida language, John Enrico bases this comprehensive description of the syntax of two Haida dialects on his twenty-five years of fieldwork in the Haida community and on the materials collected by the anthropologist John Swanton in the early twentieth century. This synthesis of the syntax of the Haida language provides an exemplary reference work of the language for the Haida community and for scholars.
Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish RLE Linguistics F World Linguistics
Author | : Donna B. Gerdts |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317918073 |
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This book treats aspects of the syntax of Halkomelem, a Salish language spoken in southwestern British Columbia, specifically those constructions which involve objects, and seeks to accomplish two goals. First, it provides natural language fodder for the debate concerning the nature of grammatical relations and their place in syntactic theory. Second, by showing that Halkomelem draws from a familiar class of universal constructions and organizes its syntax around some simple and common parameters, the author has brought the Salish languages, which due to their phonological and morphological complexity seemed particularly fearsome, into cross-linguistic perspective.
Understanding and Using English Grammar
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 7506201658 |
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Introducing Morphology
Author | : Rochelle Lieber |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107096240 |
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A lively introduction to morphology, this second edition textbook has been thoroughly updated, including new examples and exercises.
These Mysterious People
Author | : Susan Roy |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780773547100 |
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The story of how the Musqueam First Nation have used cultural objects to take control of their history and land.