Yukhíti Kóy : A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language /

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"Geoffrey Kimball presents the first grammar of the American Indian language Yukhíti Kóy, better known in English as Atakapa, once spoken in coastal southwestern Louisiana and coastal eastern Texas. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a drastic fall in the Atakapa populatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kimball, Geoffrey D., 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
Atakapa (Langue) > Grammaire.
Atakapa language > Grammar.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Phonology
  • Orthography
  • Phonemes
  • Accent
  • Phonetic processes
  • Active phonological processes
  • 2. The verb and verbal morphology
  • The aorist mode
  • Preterite mode
  • Dubitative mode
  • Future mode
  • Progressive mode
  • Subordinate mode
  • Gerund
  • Participle
  • Stative verbs
  • Negation
  • Aspect suffixes
  • Verbal prefixes
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Comparison of adjectives
  • Verbal derivational processes
  • Verb pluralization
  • Suppletion
  • 3. Nouns and nominal morphology
  • Animacy
  • Mass status
  • Ordering of nominal morphology
  • Nominal cases
  • Noun pluralization
  • Noun possession
  • Pronouns
  • Deictics
  • Postpositions
  • Numerals
  • Noun formation
  • 4. Syntax
  • Ergativity
  • Fluid-S marking
  • Word order
  • Locative compounds
  • Focus
  • Clausal complements
  • Conjunction and disjunction
  • Omitted inflection in coordinate contexts
  • Relative clause equivalents
  • Interrogative sentences
  • Idiomatic expressions
  • 5. Texts
  • Text 1. Cultural and historical topics.
  • Text 2. The Skin-desirer
  • Text 3. Treatment of the heads of infants
  • Text 4. Form letter
  • Text 5. Biographical sketch of Kišmok
  • Text 6. Notes on the family of Tottokš
  • Text 7. Traditional treatment of disease
  • Text 8. Traditional burial practices
  • Text 9. A fight among Black people in Lake Charles
  • Yukhíti-English vocabulary
  • Appendix I Hiyekiti-English Vocabulary
  • Appendix II Orkokisak-English Vocabulary
  • Appendix III Kinship terminology
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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