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Author Thompson, Sandra A.

Title A reference grammar of Wappo / Sandra A. Thompson, Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Charles N. Li
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 172 pages)
Series University of California publications in linguistics ; v. 138
University of California publications in linguistics ; v. 138.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. PHONEMIC INVENTORY AND TRANSCRIPTION; 2. WORD ORDER; 3. THE NOUN PHRASE; 3.1 Order of Elements; 3.2 Associative Phrases; 3.3 Case; 3.3.1 Nominative: -i; 3.3.2 Accusative: -Ø; 3.3.3 Dative: -thu; 3.3.4 Benefactive: -ma; 3.3.5 Instrumental: -thi?; 3.3.6 Comitative: -k'a; 3.3.7 Genitive: -me?; 3.3.8 Locative; 3.3.9 Case in noun phrases; 3.4 Number; 3.5 Demonstratives; 3.6 Conjoined NPs; 3.7 Quantifiers; 3.8 Non-referential Noun Phrases; 3.9 Pronouns; 3.9.1 Personal pronouns; 3.9.2 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
3.9.3 The third-person co-referential pronoun A. Non-body-part genitives; B. Complex sentences with dependent clauses; 4. THE VERB PHRASE; 4.1 Tense and Aspect; 4.1.1 Habitual/progressive [= DUR]; A. Habitual use; B. Progressive use; 4.1.2 Stative [= STAT; -khi?]; A. Simple states; B. Resultant states; 4.1.3 Past for actions [= PST; -ta?]; A. Transitive verbs; B. Intransitive verbs with no resulting state; 4.1.4 Inchoative [= INCH; -iš / -eš]; 4.1.5 Future [= FUT; -ya:mi? and -si?]; A.-ya:mi?, more certain; B.-si?, less certain; 4.2 Paradigms; 4.3 Verb Classes; 4.3.1 DUR classes
4.3.2 IMP classes 4.3.3 INF classes; 4.3.4 Pattern of epenthesis in verb paradigms; A. The A form and B form; B. Further stem changes; B.1 DUR forms; B.2 PST forms; B.3 STAT forms; B.4 FUT forms; B.5 IMP forms; B.6 NEG forms; B.7 NEG:FUT and NEG:IMP forms; B.8 INF forms; B.9 CAUS forms; B.10 PASS forms; B.11 PURP forms; B.12 -mime? 'go out and X' and -miti? 'go do X' forms; C. Derivation of paradigms; 4.4 Directional Prefixes; 4.4.1 Speaker-oriented directional prefixes; A. ma- and te-; A.1 ma- 'away from speaker'; A.2 te- 'toward speaker'; B. mu- and tu- (used with a restricted set of verbs)
B.1 mu- 'away from speaker (far)'B.2 tu- 'toward the speaker (from far away)'; C. mo?o- 'away from speaker' and to?o- 'towards speaker'; D. mo- 'away from speaker' and to- 'towards speaker'; E. meh- 'away from speaker' and teh- 'towards speaker'; 4.4.2 Non-speaker-oriented directional prefixes; A. ho- 'around'; B. meh- 'up'; C. č'a- 'off, away'; D. č'ah- 'out'; E. pah- 'put together'; F. pi- 'accidentally'; 4.5 Mood; 4.5.1 k'ah 'desiderative'; 4.5.2 keye 'optative'; 4.5.3 ne?-khi? 'deontic'; 4.6 Imperative; 4.7 Negation; 4.8 Passive; 4.9 Adverbs
4.10 Classificatory Verbs: Semantically Specific Verbs of Position and Motion 4.11 Evidentiality; 4.12 The Reflexive and Reciprocal; 4.12.1 The reflexive; 4.12.2 The reciprocal; 5. SIMPLE CLAUSE TYPES; 5.1 Declarative Clauses; 5.2 Questions; 5.2.1 Yes-no questions; 5.2.2 Question-word questions; A. The position and use of question words; B. The ""indefinite"" prefix i-; C. Question words as indefinite pronouns; 5.3 Comparatives; 5.4 Predicate Nominal Clauses; 5.5 Existential and Possession Clauses; 5.5.1 Existential clauses; 5.5.2 Possession clauses; 6. COMPLEX SENTENCES; 6.1 Conjunctions
Summary Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based on the speech of Laura Fish Somersal, its last fluent speaker, who died in 1990, and represents the most extensive data and grammatical research ever done on this language. The grammar focuses on morphosyntax, particularly nominal, verbal, and clausal structures and clause combining patterns, from a functional/typological perspective
Analysis associative phrases
bay area
complex sentences
conjunctions
dead language
dialect
directional prefixes
foreign language
grammar
indigenous culture
indigenous language
indigenous people
language isolate
language
laura fish somersal
linguistics
morphosyntax
nonfiction
noun phrase
reference
russian river valley
semiotics theory
sentential complements
temporal clauses
typology
verb classes
verb paradigms
verb phrase
wappo
word order
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-172)
Notes Print version record
Subject Wappo dialect -- Grammar
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Grammatik
Wappo.
Wappo-Sprache.
Form Electronic book
Author Park, Joseph Sung-Yul
Li, Charles N., 1940-
LC no. 2021696380
ISBN 9780520916104
0520916107
1282233904
9781282233904