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Glimpses of Oneida life /
"Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Iroquoian |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I PRELIMINARIES
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Recordings
- 1.2. Text Presentation and Format
- 1.3. Variation in Spoken Oneida
- 1.4. English Translations
- 2. Oneida Sounds and Orthography
- 2.1. Consonants and Vowels
- 2.2. Accent and Vowel Length
- 2.3. Utterance-Final Processes
- 2.4. Use of Punctuation
- pt. II STORIES
- Language
- Man Tells Off His Boss
- Berries and Bellies
- Why Berries Are Bellies in Oneida
- Kastes Buys a Face
- Bean Game
- Fat Cat
- Lessons
- Flirt
- Why the Bat Travels at Night
- Crow
- Some Woodcutters Get a Visitor
- Why Dogs Don't Talk
- Bird
- Jealous Husband
- Story of Birch Bark
- Ghostly Tales
- Ghost Sightings at the Language Centre
- Ghosts, Flirts, and Scary Beings
- My Father's Encounter
- Girl with the Bandaged Fingers
- Unwanted Passenger
- Scary Light
- Ghost on the Tracks
- Night Visitor
- What My Brother Leo Saw
- Pranks and Mishaps
- Visits to My Auntie's
- Pig in the Window
- Unusual Spittoon
- Worms in the Soup
- My First Christmas Tree
- Steamy Story
- How I Learned to Swear
- More Favourite Memories
- Wish Comes True
- My Dog Blackie
- Hairy Adventure
- Scary Hairy Adventure
- Friday Nights
- Wintertime
- Customs
- Spoiled Child
- Dreamer
- Forecasting Things to Come
- Starting Life Together
- After a Loss
- Getting Hoy an
- Beaver, Let's Trade Teeth!
- How to Divert a Storm
- Growing Up and Working
- Oneida Childhood
- Lifetime Working
- Learning to Work in Tobacco
- All about Tobacco
- My First Job in Tobacco
- Reflections
- My Childhood
- Family and Friends
- Lifetime of Memories
- pt. III GRAMMAR
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Word Structure
- 2.1. Verbs
- 2.2. Particles
- 2.2.1. Pronouns and Identification of Participants
- 2.2.2. Certainty and Emphasis
- 2.2.3. Location and Time
- 2.2.4. Connectives
- 2.3. Nouns
- 2.4. Noun Incorporation
- 2.5. Kinship Terms
- 3. Possession
- 3.1. Verbal Possession with Alienable Nouns
- 3.2. Nominal Possession with Alienable Nouns
- 3.3. Verbal Possession with Inalienable Nouns
- 3.4. Nominal Possession with Inalienable Nouns
- 4. Clauses
- 4.1. Clauses, Utterances, and Constructions
- 4.2. Clauses as Arguments
- 4.3. Introduction and Mention of Discourse Referents
- 4.4. Mismatches between Verbal and Nominal Prefixes
- 5. Negation
- 6. Questions
- 6.1. Content Questions
- 6.2. Yes-No Questions
- 6.3. Embedded Questions
- 7. Indefinites
- 7.1. Positive Indefinites
- 7.2. Negative Indefinites
- 8. Free Relatives and Correlatives
- 9. Counting
- 9.1. Counting One
- 9.2. Counting Two
- 9.3. Counting Three or More
- 9.4. Counting Possessed Entities
- 9.5. Age and Time
- 10. Degree and Comparison
- 10.1. Degree
- 10.2. Comparison `more, ' `less'
- 11. Possibility and Necessity
- 11.1. Possibility
- 11.2. Necessity
- 12. Other Linkages between Clauses
- 12.1. kanyo ok `so that'
- 12.2. ta t `if, maybe, whether, or'
- 12.3. ati `no matter, although, even though'
- 12.4. khale?, tahnu `and'
- 12.5. nok tsi?, kwah nok (tsi?) `but, only, just'
- 12.6. ne tsi? `because'.