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1 online resource (li, 1658 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Mouton grammar library, 0933-7636 ; 58 |
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Mouton grammar library ; 58. 0933-7636
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Foreword; List of tables; List of phonological rules; Abbreviations and conventions; Maps; Part 1: Preliminaries; Chapter 1. Introductory; 1.1. Profiles of Eskimo languages; 1.2. CAY -- Speakers and dialects; 1.3. Postcontact status and current status; 1.4. Previous studies and sources for this description; 1.5. CAY's geographical placement among neighboring languages; Chapter 2. A word in Yupik; 2.1. A word as a "form"; 2.2. Bilateral articulation; 2.2.1. Words and syllables as minimal forms; 2.2.2. A glimpse into the "form"; 2.2.3. "Mismatches." |
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2.3. Words, bound phrases, and phrases2.3.1. Clitic vs. non-clitic bound phrase; 2.3.2. Strongly vs. weakly bound; 2.3.3. Detached or hetero-articulations; 2.4. Illustrations from CAY; 2.5. Implications of formhood; Chapter 3. Phonological preliminaries; 3.1. Representations; 3.2. Vowels; 3.2.1. Three full vowels and schwa; 3.2.2. Single vs. double vowels; 3.2.3. Vowel clusters; 3.2.4. Phonetic specifications; 3.3. Consonants; 3.3.1. Place-of-articulation contrasts; 3.3.2. Manner-of-articulation contrasts; 3.3.2.1. Phonological alternations; 3.3.2.2. Dialect variations |
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3.3.3. Voiceless vs. voiced3.3.3.1. Phonological alternations; 3.3.3.2. Dialectal variations; 3.3.4. Single vs. geminate; 3.3.4.1. Names; 3.3.4.2. Loanwords; 3.3.4.3. Intensification; 3.3.5. Phonotactics; 3.3.5. 1. Word-medial; 3.3.5.2. Word-initial; 3.3.5.3. Word-final; 3.3.5.4. Final truncation; 3.3.6. Phonetic specifications; 3.4. Phonological units; 3.5. Prosody; 3.6. Practical orthography; 3.6.1. Use of alphabets; 3.6.2. Use of apostrophes; 3.6.3. Use of hyphens; 3.6.4. Different manners of writing; Chapter 4. Morphological preliminaries; 4.1. General characteristics |
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4.1.1. Predominant suffixation4.1.2. Agglutination; 4.1.3. Non-templatic polysynthesis; 4.1.3.1. Derivational suffixes in advance; 4.1.3.2. Postinflectional derivation; 4.1.4. Ergativity and case-marking; 4.1.4.1. Morphological ergativity; 4.1.4.2. Double marking; 4.1.4.3. Case marking; 4.2. Word and its constructions; 4.2.1. Three word classes -- nominals, verbs, non-inflecting words; 4.2.2. Constituents of inflecting words -- stem, derivation, and inflection; 4.2.2.1. Morpheme shapes and suffix types; 4.2.2.2. Morpheme sequence illustrated; 4.2.3. Stems; 4.2.3.1. Classification |
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4.2.3.2. Shape of stems4.2.3.3. Lexical stock in trade: native and loan; 4.2.4. Inflectional suffixes (inflections); 4.2.5. Derivational suffixes; 4.2.5.1. Classification: transcategorial vs. stem-elaborating; 4.2.5.2. Suffix order; 4.2.5.3. Composite suffixes and cyclical expansion; 4.2.5.4. Morphological expansions illustrated; 4.2.5.4.1 Polysynthetic words; 4.2.5.4.2 Multiple embedding; 4.2.5.5. Periphrasis; 4.2.5.5.1 Derivational suffixes vs. stems; 4.2.5.5.2 Splitting with expletive \pi-\ -- periphrastic constructions; 4.3. Morphological anomalies; Chapter 5. Syntactical preliminaries |
| Summary |
The volume is a major grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY). It is the culmination of the author's linguistic studies done in Alaska and elsewhere since around 1960, with assistance of many native speakers. Central Alaskan Yupik is currently the most vigorous of the nineteen remaining Native Alaskan languages. Descriptive in nature, extensive and deep, this grammar is of typological and of ethnological/anthropological interest. Given the severely endangered state of the language, this much of descriptive linguistic material is without comparison in the field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Central Yupik language -- Grammar
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
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Yupik-Sprache
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Grammatik
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
311027857X |
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9783110278576 |
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1299718833 |
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9781299718838 |
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