A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine)

Linda A. Cumberland (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

458 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4283-9 (ISBN)

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A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) is the first complete grammar of the Native American language Assiniboine, also known by the endonym Nakoda, a member of the Siouan language family. It addresses all major grammatical categories, including phonology, nouns, verbs, adverbs, enclitics, determiners, syntax, and kinship terminology. It also includes groundbreaking analysis of motion verbs of coming and going, demonstrating that such verbs compose a closed system that is consistent in varying degrees across all Siouan languages.

Over the past century and a half, the classification of the Assiniboine language has suffered due to a complicated history regarding the Dakotan branch of the Siouan language family. Once spoken over a vast contiguous area of the northern plains, Assiniboine/Nakoda is used today among the Assiniboine people in and around Fort Belknap and Fort Peck in Montana and in five reserves in Saskatchewan. A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) establishes the singular basis of the language while also relating its unique features to other Great Plains American Indian languages.

Linda A. Cumberland is a former language director at the Kaw Nation of Oklahoma. She has received grants for language preservation research from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Rules
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Phonology
3. Nouns and Pronouns
4. Kinship
5. Adverbs
6. Verbs
7. The KI Morphemes
8. Motion Verbs
9. Enclitics and Postverbal Particles
10. Determiners
11. Syntax
Appendix A: Big Snake
Appendix B: ĮktÓmi and Fox
Appendix C: Crow Belt Ceremony
Appendix D: Instrumental Prefixes
Appendix E: Orthographic Equivalencies
Appendix F: Idioms
Appendix G: Consultants
Notes
References

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas
Zusatzinfo	1 illustration, 1 map, 45 tables, 10 charts, 7 appendixes
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-4283-1 / 1496242831
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4283-9 / 9781496242839
Zustand	Neuware