| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 524 pages) |
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Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 4 |
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Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Abbreviations; Grammatical Abbreviations; Abbreviations in Glosses of Lexical Items; The Classifiers -- Representation; About This Book; Chapter One. The Dene Suline People and Language; Introduction; The Southern Dene Region; Chapter Two. The 20th Century in Dillon, Saskatchewan; Traditional Economy and Land Use; Transportation; Demographics; Religion, Spirituality and Residential Schools; The Dene Suline Language; Dialect Variation; Sociolinguistic Status; Chapter Three. The Narratives; The Storytellers; Data Collection Methodology; Transcription and Translation; Editing |
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OrthographyPhonological Issues in Transcription; Presentation of the Texts; Unsegmented Material; Verb Stems; Representing the Classifiers; Repetition of Wordforms; Polysemy in the English Glosses; Aspect and Number; Parts of Speech; Monomorphemic Verbs; Morphological Idioms; BENASNI -- I REMEMBER; 1. Sophie Chanalquay; 2. Norbert Billette; 3. Monique Sylvestre; 4. Jerome Noltcho; 5. Veronique Benjamin; 6. Couronne Billette; 7. Pierre Noltcho; 8. George Billette; 9. Patrick Desjarlais; 10. Emilien Desjarlais; 11. Greg Noltcho; 12. Arsene Nezcroche; Photographs |
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Morphology and Etymology in the Interlinear Translation1. The Verb Stem; 1.1. Semantic Number Versus Stem Suppletion; 1.2. The Classifiers; 1.3. Minor Verb Classes; 1.4. Summary; 2. Verbs -- Inflection; 2.1. Subject Agreement, Aspect and Mood; 2.2. The Status of Aspect and Mood Categories; 2.3. Subject Agreement + Imperfective Aspect Allomorphy; 2.4. Subject Agreement + Perfective Aspect Allomorphy; 2.5. Optative Mood; 2.6. Object Agreement; 2.7. Quasi-Inflection; 2.8. Fossilized Inflection Markers; 3. Verbs -- Derivation; 3.1. Event Phase and Quantification |
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3.2. Other Event Quantification and Manner Derivations3.2. Directional and Manner Prefixes; 3.3. Evidence of Fossilized Derivational Processes; 4. Other Parts of Speech; 4.1. Nouns -- Inflection; 4.2. Nouns and Adjectives -- Derivation; 4.3. Particles; Summary; Appendix. Word Senses of the English Glosses; Bibliography; Index; Linguistic Index |
| Summary |
In Benasní - I Remember, Josh Holden presents autobiographical narratives about cultural change from twelve Dene Su??iné elders in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Dene texts are accompanied by an innovative interlinear translation that distinguishes morphology from etymology, and a morphological sketch |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chipewyan language -- Grammar
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Chipewyan language -- History
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
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Chipewyan language
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012036029 |
| ISBN |
9789004235359 |
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9004235353 |
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