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A grammar of Eyak / Michael E. Krauss ; edited by Kevin Baetscher and Gary Holton ; in collaboration with Sophie Borodkin, Anna Nelson Harry, George Johnson, Lena Saska Nacktan, Mike Sewak and Marie Smith.
Penn Museum Library PM1189 .K73 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krauss, Michael E., 1934-2019, author.
- Series:
- Mouton grammar library ; v. 88.
- Mouton Grammar Library, volume 88
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eyak language--Grammar.
- Eyak Indians--Language.
- Tlingit language--Grammar.
- Chipewyan language--Grammar.
- Copper River Delta (Alaska)--Languages.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 1162 pages : some illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2025]
- Summary:
- Eyak (dAXunhyuuga*) is the traditional language of the Copper River Delta region of the Gulf of Alaska. Smallest of the Alaska Native languages, Eyak had nearly been forgotten by the scientific community by the early twentieth century. In 1963, recognizing both the severely endangered status of the language and its critical importance to the linguistic prehistory of Alaska, Michael Krauss began a systematic effort to document every aspect of the language, working with each of the few remaining speakers. Drawing on more than fifty years of research, this grammar provides the first comprehensive record of Eyak phonology, morphology, and syntax. Adopting a theory-neutral approach, Krauss focuses on detailed description, providing exhaustive exemplification from the now closed corpus. The grammar includes ample discussion of comparative and conflicting data from the related Tlingit and Dene (Athabaskan) languages, making the work particularly useful for Dene scholars. Non-specialists will find here a window into the structure of a highly synthetic and typologically unusual language. This comprehensive work will also serve as a useful reference for the growing dAXunhyuuga* reclamation effort.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1151-1158) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110739428
- 3110739429
- OCLC:
- 1344293931
- Publisher Number:
- 90101049022
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