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Author Balodis, Uldis, author

Title Yuki grammar : with sketches of Huchnom and Coast Yuki / Uldis Balodis
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 658 pages) : illustrations
Series UC Publications in Linguistics ; v. 151
UC Publications in Linguistics
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. The Yuki Language -- 1.1.1. Background and Genetic Affiliation -- 1.1.2. Location -- 1.1.3. Identity -- 1.1.4. Dialects -- 1.1.5. Contact Languages -- 1.2. Previous Research -- 1.2.1. Previous Work on Yuki -- 1.2.2. Previous Work on Huchnom and Coast Yuki -- 1.3. History -- 1.3.1. Prehistory -- 1.3.2. Contact and Immediate Aftermath -- 1.3.3. The California Indian Wars and Nome Cult Farm -- 1.3.4. Peace, Religion, and Allotment -- 1.3.5. Twentieth Century -- 1.4. Ethnography -- 1.5. Sociolinguistic Situation -- 1.5.1. Multilingualism and Language Attitudes -- 1.5.2. Contexts of Use and Language Choice -- 1.5.3. Viability -- 1.6. Research Corpus, Methods, and Consultants -- 1.6.1. Research Corpus -- 1.6.2. Methods -- 1.6.3. Underlying forms -- 1.6.4. Consultants and other sources -- 1.6.5. Presentation of Data -- 1.7. Brief Grammatical Overview -- 2. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY -- 2.1. Phoneme Inventory and Description of Phonemes -- 2.1.1. Consonants -- 2.1.1.1. Glottalization -- 2.1.1.2. Aspiration and Voicing -- 2.1.1.3. Distribution -- 2.1.1.4. Stops, Affricates, and Fricatives -- 2.1.1.4.1. Alveolar /áš­/ and Dental
Summary The Yuki language, including Huchnom and Coast Yuki, was spoken in Mendocino County until relatively recently (the last speaker died in 1983). This grammar is based primarily on spoken narratives recorded by Alfred Kroeber between 1901-1911
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 648-658)
Notes Text in English and Yuki, translated from the Yuki
Print version record
Subject Yuki language -- Grammar
Yuki language -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Yuki language
Yuki Indians
California
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520965690
0520965698