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Blackfoot grammar / Donald G. Frantz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frantz, Donald G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Siksika
- Subjects (All):
- Siksika language--Grammar.
- Siksika language.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 203 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Includes text in Blackfoot.
- Summary:
- "Although thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language, their numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in danger. Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes Third Edition, provides description and analyses of the major features of Blackfoot grammar and language structures. The changes throughout this third edition reflect approaches refined through years of teaching experience. A new appendix, featuring a lengthy Blackfoot text with interlinear English translation has been added, as well as numerous corrections and additions to every chapter. This third edition of Blackfoot Grammar will be a welcome resource not only for those who wish to learn the language, but for all those with an interest in Native Studies and North American linguistics."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Blackfoot Alphabet 1
- Chapter 2 Some Basics of Noun Inflection 8
- Chapter 3 Intransitive Verbs 18
- Chapter 4 More on Intransitive Verbs 23
- Chapter 5 Some Phonological Rules 28
- Chapter 6 Tense and Aspect 33
- Chapter 7 Four Verb Stem Types 42
- Chapter 8 Transitive Inanimate Verbs 46
- Chapter 9 Attached Pronouns 51
- Chapter 10 Transitive Animate, Part 1: Direct 56
- Chapter 11 Transitive Animate, Part 2: Inverse 61
- Chapter 12 Transitive Animate, Part 3: Local Forms 65
- Chapter 13 Demonstratives 69
- Chapter 14 Possessives 76
- Chapter 15 Allomorphy 84
- Chapter 16 Complex Verb Stems, Part 1 90
- Chapter 17 Complex Verb Stems, Part 2: Finals 108
- Chapter 18 Some Concrete Finals 111
- Chapter 19 Other Verb Paradigms 121
- Chapter 20 Nominalizations 128
- Chapter 21 Questions 146
- Chapter 22 Complement Clause Types 156
- Chapter 23 Translating from English to Blackfoot 161
- Chapter 24 Numbers and Enumeration 164.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781487500863
- 1487500866
- 9781487520649
- 1487520646
- OCLC:
- 966404606
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