The Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) Language : A Revitalization Reference Grammar / Andrew Cowell ; with Terry Brockie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowell, Andrew, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Brockie, Terry, 1969- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gros Ventre language (Algonquian)--Grammar.

Gros Ventre language (Algonquian).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) is a member of the Algonquian language family and is most closely related to the Arapaho language. In The Aaniiih (Gros Ventre): A Revitalization Reference Grammar, Andrew Cowell presents a tribally centered reference grammar of Gros Ventre. Cowell and the tribal members worked together to retranscribe historical archival documentation of the language to decolonize what the Gros Ventre officially call the language, Aaniiih"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Symbols

1. Introduction

1.1. Situating the Aaniiih Language in Time and Space

1.2. The Aaniiih-Arapaho Languages

1.3. Classical and Twentieth-Century Aaniiih

1.4. Contemporary Aaniiih and Revitalization

1.5. Summary: What Is a Revitalization Grammar?

2. The Way Aaniiih Works

2.1. Agglutination (Prefixes and Suffixes) and Polysynthesis (Multiconcept Words)

2.2. Animacy of Nouns: ni vs na

2.3. Different Verbs (Verb Stem Types) in Relation to the ni/na Distinction

2.4. Different Verb "Orders" for Different Types of Information

2.5. Word Order and Other Means of Information Focusing

2.6. Person Hierarchy: Who's Most Important?

2.7. Male and Female Speech

3. Phonology

3.1. Phonemic Inventory and Features

3.2. Combining Roots or Morphemes

3.3. Stress, Syllable Structure, and Effects of Stress on Vowels

3.4. Summary

4. Nouns, Pronouns, and Noun Phrases

4.1. Noun Classes: Animate and Inanimate

4.2. Noun Inflection

4.3. Verbal Nouns

4.4. Noun Derivation

4.5. Pronouns

4.6. Noun Phrases

5. Verbal Inflection

5.1. Proximate and Obviative System

5.2. Affirmative Order Verb Inflections

5.3. Nonaffirmative Order Verb Inflections

5.4. Imperative Order Verb Inflections

5.5. Conjunct Order Verb Inflections

5.6. 'To Be . . .' in Aaniiih

6. Verb Derivation

6.1. Primary Verb Derivation: Verb Finals

6.2. Secondary Derivation

6.3. Examples of New Verb Formation

7. Verbal Prefixes and Verb Initial Roots

7.1. Epistemic Prefixes Regarding Certainty of Information, and Evidentiality

7.2. Prefixes Indicating Relative Temporal Relationships

7.3. Prefixes Indicating Aspect and/or Temporal Frequency.

7.4. Prefixes Serving as Quantifiers and Intensifiers

7.5. Auxiliary-Type (Modal) Prefixes

7.6. Prefix Detachment

7.7. Manner, Direction, and Location Prefixes/Verb Initials

7.8. Deictic Directional Prefixes

7.9. Reduplication

7.10. Complex Verb Initials and Prefixes

7.11. Noun and Verb Compounds vs. Initials: Restrictions on ti and ta Stems

8. Verb Tense, Aspect, and Modality

8.1. Affirmative Order Tense and Aspect

8.2. Nonaffirmative Order Tense and Aspect

8.3. Imperative Order Tense and Aspect

8.4. Conjunct Order Tense and Aspect

8.5. Sequential Action

8.6. Modality

9. Deverbalization Processes and Noun Formation

9.1. Agent Nominalizations

9.2. Deverbal Participles

9.3. Impersonal Verbs: Place and Time Nominalizations

10. Main Clause Syntax

10.1. Pragmatic Focus and the Sentence-Initial Position

10.2. Smaller-Scale Syntactic Order in Aaniiih

10.3. Discontinuous Constituency

10.4. Di-Transitive Verbs and Secondary Objects

10.5. Comparatives and Superlatives

11. Subordinate Clauses

11.1. Relative Root Preverbs

11.2. More on Adverbial Clauses: "Prepositional" Phrases, Direction and Location

11.3. More on Complement Clauses: Complementizer

11.4. Pseudo-Cleft Expressions with Relative Roots

11.5. More on Relative Clauses

12. Particles and Discourse

12.1. Simple Particles

12.2. Complex Particles

12.3. Exclamations

12.4. Conversational Particles

12.5. Discourse-Level Particles

12.6. The Grammar of Politeness

13. Numbers, Time, and Dates

13.1. General Principles of Numbers in Aaniiih

13.2. Cardinal Numbers

13.3. Ordinal numbers

13.4. Distributive and Collective Meanings

13.5. Types, Kinds

13.6. Money and Value Expressions

Weights, Lengths, Degrees, etc.

13.7. Time: Number of Days.

13.8. Time: Specific Days, Months, Seasons

13.9. Time: Hours and Minutes

13.10. Time: Age

13.11. Time Duration (Lengths/Quantities of Time)

14. Special Language Practices

14.1. Place-Names

14.2. Personal Names

14.3. Traditional Narratives

14.4. Songs

14.5. Prayer

14.6. Announcing and Honor Calling

14.7. Animal and Bird Calls, Sounds and Speech

14.8. Baby Talk

15. Modern/Twentieth-Century Aaniiih

15.1. Phonology

15.2. Nouns, Pronouns, and Noun Phrases

15.3. Verbal Inflections

15.4. Tense, Aspect, and Modality

15.5. Twentieth-Century Aaniiih from a Broader Aaniiih-Arapaho Perspective

15.6. Twentieth-Century Aaniiih from a Contact Perspective

15.7. Twentieth-Century Aaniiih and Internal Language Change

15.8. Conclusion

16. Contemporary Aaniiih and Revitalization

16.1. Phonology

16.2. Nouns, Pronouns, and Noun Phrases

16.3. Verb Inflections

16.4. Tense, Aspect, and Modality

16.5. Other Components of the Grammar

16.6. Special Speech Forms

16.7. New Word Formation

16.8. Summary of Key Issues and Current Plans in Revitalization Aaniiih

17. A Classical Aaniiih Text

Appendix 1: Aaniiih Historical Phonology, from pa to Aaniiih

Appendix 2: From pa to Classical Aaniiih: Basic Inflections

Appendix 3: Umfreville's 1786 Documentation of Aaniiih

Appendix 4: Prince Maximillian von Wied's 1833-1834 Documentation of Aaniiih

Appendix 5: Hayden's 1855 Documentation of Aaniiih

Appendix 6: Nouns That Are Unexpectedly Animate

Appendix 7: Revitalization Aaniiih Noun and Verb Paradigms

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496240583

1496240588

OCLC:

1453617166