A Grammar of Patwin Lewis C. Lawyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawyer, Lewis C., author.

Series:

Studies in the native languages of the Americas.

Studies in the native languages of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patwin language--Grammar.

Patwin language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, [2021]

Summary:

"A Grammar of Patwin brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published description of the Patwin language"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

4.6.2.1. Double Case Marking in Semantic Cases

4.6.2.2. Comitative Case /-da/ 'with'

4.6.2.3. Instrumental Case /-tin, -sin, -win, -in, -kin/ 'with'

4.6.2.4. Locative Case /-ła, -tin/ 'at, to'

4.6.2.5. Allative Case /-tuka, -tʼuka/ 'toward'

4.6.2.6. Ablative Case /-ti, -na·k/ 'from'

4.6.2.7. Prolative Case /-na/ 'via'

4.7. Absolutive Suffix

4.8. Vocatives

4.9. Order of Morphemes

4.10. Verbalization

4.10.1. Active Verbalizer /-ho/

4.10.2. Stative Verbalizer /-ʔa/

4.11. Compound Constructions

5. Pronouns

5.1. Tables of Forms

5.2. Roots

3.6. Reduplication

3.7. Loanwords

3.7.1. Phoneme Correspondences

3.7.2. Syllable Structure in Loanwords

4. Nominals and Nominal Morphology

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Nouns

4.2.1. Inflectional Classes

4.2.2. Human Nouns

4.2.3. Noun Citation Forms

4.3. Kinship Terms

4.3.1. Possession of Kinship Terms

4.3.2. Kinship Term Citation Forms

4.4. Nominalized Verbs

4.5. Number Marking

4.6. Case Marking

4.6.1. Grammatical Cases

4.6.1.1. Subjective Case

4.6.1.2. Objective Case

4.6.1.3. Possessive Case

4.6.2. Semantic Cases

2.3.10.1. Vowel Quality

2.3.10.2. Vowel Quality in Unstressed Syllables

2.3.10.3. Vowel Length

2.4. Stress and Intonation

3. Phonology

3.1. Phonotactics

3.2. The Syllable

3.2.1. Syllable-Preserving Suffix Allomorphy

3.2.2. Anomalous Syllables

3.2.3. Extrasyllabic /ʔ/

3.3. Words and Stems

3.4. Stress Assignment and Syllable Weights

3.5. Segmental Phenomena

3.5.1. Vowel Shortening

3.5.2. Rhotic Assimilation

3.5.3. /h/ Vocalization

3.5.4. Deaffrication

3.5.5. Deaspiration

3.5.6. Vowel Epenthesis

3.5.7. South Patwin Nasal Alternation

1.3. Grammaticography

1.3.1. The Utility of Language Description

1.3.2. Managing Uncertainty

1.3.3. Theoretical Alignment

1.4. Orthography and Formatting

2. Phonemics and Phonetics

2.1. Phoneme Inventory

2.2. Minimal Pairs

2.3. Detailed Phonetic and Phonemic Descriptions

2.3.1. Laryngeal Series

2.3.1.1. Voice Onset Time

2.3.1.2. Glottalization

2.3.2. Alveolars

2.3.3. Laterals

2.3.4. The Rhotic

2.3.5. The Sibilant

2.3.6. The Glottal Fricative

2.3.7. The Glottal Stop

2.3.8. The Postalveolar Affricate

2.3.9. The Semivowels

2.3.10. Vowels

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Alphabetical List of Morphemes

1. Background

1.1. The Patwin Language

1.1.1. Genetic Affiliation and Contact

1.1.2. Dialects

1.1.2.1. Map of Patwin Dialects

1.1.2.2. Language and Dialect

1.1.2.3. Hill Patwin

1.1.2.4. River Patwin

1.1.2.5. South Patwin

1.1.3. Nomenclature and Synonymies

1.2. Materials

1.2.1. Materials Consulted

1.2.1.1. Major Sources

1.2.1.2. Smaller Written Sources

1.2.1.3. Audio Sources

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of California, Davis, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496222770

1496222776

OCLC:

1237862062