Yukhíti kóy : a reference grammar of the Atakapa language / compiled by Geoffrey Kimball ; from the field notes of Albert Samuel Gatschet, provided by Kišyuc and Tottokš ; with translated and analyzed texts and vocabulary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimball, Geoffrey D., 1954- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atakapa language--Grammar.

Atakapa language.

Physical Description:

xviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 population, and by the first decades of the twentieth century the Atakapa language ceased to be spoken. The grammar is based on the field notes collected by Albert Samuel Gatschet in January of 1885, with additional material collected by John R. Swanton in 1907-8. Gatschet worked with two speakers of the language, Kišyuc, also known as Yoyot, and her cousin Tottokš, whose English names were Louison Huntington and Delilah Moss, respectively. John R. Swanton wrote a grammatical sketch of Atakapa in 1929 based on Gatschet's notes and in 1932 published the texts Gatschet had gathered, as well as a dictionary. The materials, originally written phonetically, have been phonemicized, and the nature of the grammar has been elucidated. The nine surviving texts in Yukhíti have been phonemicized, analyzed, and translated, and the parallels between them and other traditional oral literatures of Native American languages of the Southeast are discussed. This reference grammar includes a vocabulary of all words contained in the field notes. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Phonology

Orthography

Atakapa Phonemes

Accent

Phonetic Processes

Active Phonological Processes

2. The Verb and Verbal Morphology

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 Kismok

Text 6 Notes on the Family of Tottoks

Text 7 Traditional Treatment of Disease

Text 8 Traditional Burial Practices

Text 9 A Fight among Black People in Lake Charles

Yukhiti-English Vocabulary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781496229663

1496229665

OCLC:

1261878401

Publisher Number:

99991322308