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1 online resource |
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Studies in the native languages of the Americas |
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Studies in the native languages of the Americas.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Alphabetical List of Morphemes -- 1. Background -- 1.1. The Patwin Language -- 1.1.1. Genetic Affiliation and Contact -- 1.1.2. Dialects -- 1.1.2.1. Map of Patwin Dialects -- 1.1.2.2. Language and Dialect -- 1.1.2.3. Hill Patwin -- 1.1.2.4. River Patwin -- 1.1.2.5. South Patwin -- 1.1.3. Nomenclature and Synonymies -- 1.2. Materials -- 1.2.1. Materials Consulted -- 1.2.1.1. Major Sources -- 1.2.1.2. Smaller Written Sources -- 1.2.1.3. Audio Sources |
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1.3. Grammaticography -- 1.3.1. The Utility of Language Description -- 1.3.2. Managing Uncertainty -- 1.3.3. Theoretical Alignment -- 1.4. Orthography and Formatting -- 2. Phonemics and Phonetics -- 2.1. Phoneme Inventory -- 2.2. Minimal Pairs -- 2.3. Detailed Phonetic and Phonemic Descriptions -- 2.3.1. Laryngeal Series -- 2.3.1.1. Voice Onset Time -- 2.3.1.2. Glottalization -- 2.3.2. Alveolars -- 2.3.3. Laterals -- 2.3.4. The Rhotic -- 2.3.5. The Sibilant -- 2.3.6. The Glottal Fricative -- 2.3.7. The Glottal Stop -- 2.3.8. The Postalveolar Affricate -- 2.3.9. The Semivowels -- 2.3.10. Vowels |
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2.3.10.1. Vowel Quality -- 2.3.10.2. Vowel Quality in Unstressed Syllables -- 2.3.10.3. Vowel Length -- 2.4. Stress and Intonation -- 3. Phonology -- 3.1. Phonotactics -- 3.2. The Syllable -- 3.2.1. Syllable-Preserving Suffix Allomorphy -- 3.2.2. Anomalous Syllables -- 3.2.3. Extrasyllabic /ʔ/ -- 3.3. Words and Stems -- 3.4. Stress Assignment and Syllable Weights -- 3.5. Segmental Phenomena -- 3.5.1. Vowel Shortening -- 3.5.2. Rhotic Assimilation -- 3.5.3. /h/ Vocalization -- 3.5.4. Deaffrication -- 3.5.5. Deaspiration -- 3.5.6. Vowel Epenthesis -- 3.5.7. South Patwin Nasal Alternation |
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3.6. Reduplication -- 3.7. Loanwords -- 3.7.1. Phoneme Correspondences -- 3.7.2. Syllable Structure in Loanwords -- 4. Nominals and Nominal Morphology -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Nouns -- 4.2.1. Inflectional Classes -- 4.2.2. Human Nouns -- 4.2.3. Noun Citation Forms -- 4.3. Kinship Terms -- 4.3.1. Possession of Kinship Terms -- 4.3.2. Kinship Term Citation Forms -- 4.4. Nominalized Verbs -- 4.5. Number Marking -- 4.6. Case Marking -- 4.6.1. Grammatical Cases -- 4.6.1.1. Subjective Case -- 4.6.1.2. Objective Case -- 4.6.1.3. Possessive Case -- 4.6.2. Semantic Cases |
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4.6.2.1. Double Case Marking in Semantic Cases -- 4.6.2.2. Comitative Case /-da/ 'with' -- 4.6.2.3. Instrumental Case /-tin, -sin, -win, -in, -kin/ 'with' -- 4.6.2.4. Locative Case /-ła, -tin/ 'at, to' -- 4.6.2.5. Allative Case /-tuka, -tʼuka/ 'toward' -- 4.6.2.6. Ablative Case /-ti, -na·k/ 'from' -- 4.6.2.7. Prolative Case /-na/ 'via' -- 4.7. Absolutive Suffix -- 4.8. Vocatives -- 4.9. Order of Morphemes -- 4.10. Verbalization -- 4.10.1. Active Verbalizer /-ho/ -- 4.10.2. Stative Verbalizer /-ʔa/ -- 4.11. Compound Constructions -- 5. Pronouns -- 5.1. Tables of Forms -- 5.2. Roots |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Patwin language -- Grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496222770 |
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1496222776 |
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