A grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY) / by Osahito Miyaoka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miyaoka, Osahito, 1936- author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Mouton grammar library ; 0933-7636 58.

Mouton grammar library, 0933-7636 ; 58

Language:

English

Japanese

Yupik languages

Subjects (All):

Central Yupik language--Grammar.

Central Yupik language.

Grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (li, 1658 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Foreword; List of tables; List of phonological rules; Abbreviations and conventions; Maps; Part 1: Preliminaries; Chapter 1. Introductory; 1.1. Profiles of Eskimo languages; 1.2. CAY

Speakers and dialects; 1.3. Postcontact status and current status; 1.4. Previous studies and sources for this description; 1.5. CAY's geographical placement among neighboring languages; Chapter 2. A word in Yupik; 2.1. A word as a "form"; 2.2. Bilateral articulation; 2.2.1. Words and syllables as minimal forms; 2.2.2. A glimpse into the "form"; 2.2.3. "Mismatches."

2.3. Words, bound phrases, and phrases2.3.1. Clitic vs. non-clitic bound phrase; 2.3.2. Strongly vs. weakly bound; 2.3.3. Detached or hetero-articulations; 2.4. Illustrations from CAY; 2.5. Implications of formhood; Chapter 3. Phonological preliminaries; 3.1. Representations; 3.2. Vowels; 3.2.1. Three full vowels and schwa; 3.2.2. Single vs. double vowels; 3.2.3. Vowel clusters; 3.2.4. Phonetic specifications; 3.3. Consonants; 3.3.1. Place-of-articulation contrasts; 3.3.2. Manner-of-articulation contrasts; 3.3.2.1. Phonological alternations; 3.3.2.2. Dialect variations.

3.3.3. Voiceless vs. voiced3.3.3.1. Phonological alternations; 3.3.3.2. Dialectal variations; 3.3.4. Single vs. geminate; 3.3.4.1. Names; 3.3.4.2. Loanwords; 3.3.4.3. Intensification; 3.3.5. Phonotactics; 3.3.5. 1. Word-medial; 3.3.5.2. Word-initial; 3.3.5.3. Word-final; 3.3.5.4. Final truncation; 3.3.6. Phonetic specifications; 3.4. Phonological units; 3.5. Prosody; 3.6. Practical orthography; 3.6.1. Use of alphabets; 3.6.2. Use of apostrophes; 3.6.3. Use of hyphens; 3.6.4. Different manners of writing; Chapter 4. Morphological preliminaries; 4.1. General characteristics.

4.1.1. Predominant suffixation4.1.2. Agglutination; 4.1.3. Non-templatic polysynthesis; 4.1.3.1. Derivational suffixes in advance; 4.1.3.2. Postinflectional derivation; 4.1.4. Ergativity and case-marking; 4.1.4.1. Morphological ergativity; 4.1.4.2. Double marking; 4.1.4.3. Case marking; 4.2. Word and its constructions; 4.2.1. Three word classes

nominals, verbs, non-inflecting words; 4.2.2. Constituents of inflecting words

stem, derivation, and inflection; 4.2.2.1. Morpheme shapes and suffix types; 4.2.2.2. Morpheme sequence illustrated; 4.2.3. Stems; 4.2.3.1. Classification.

4.2.3.2. Shape of stems4.2.3.3. Lexical stock in trade: native and loan; 4.2.4. Inflectional suffixes (inflections); 4.2.5. Derivational suffixes; 4.2.5.1. Classification: transcategorial vs. stem-elaborating; 4.2.5.2. Suffix order; 4.2.5.3. Composite suffixes and cyclical expansion; 4.2.5.4. Morphological expansions illustrated; 4.2.5.4.1 Polysynthetic words; 4.2.5.4.2 Multiple embedding; 4.2.5.5. Periphrasis; 4.2.5.5.1 Derivational suffixes vs. stems; 4.2.5.5.2 Splitting with expletive \pi-\

periphrastic constructions; 4.3. Morphological anomalies; Chapter 5. Syntactical preliminaries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Miyaoka, Osahito, 1936- Grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY).

ISBN:

311027857X

9783110278576

1299718833

9781299718838

Publisher Number:

99964661344

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