A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 2

Semantics, Syntax, Discourse

Olga Lovick (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

648 Seiten

2023
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3143-7 (ISBN)

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A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 2 is part of a comprehensive two-volume text that linguistically renders a written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of the Upper Tanana language, volume 2 meticulously details a language that is currently spoken, with fluency, by approximately fifty people in limited parts of Alaska’s eastern interior and Canada’s Yukon Territory. As part of the Dene (Athabascan) language group, Upper Tanana embodies elements of both the Alaskan and Canadian subgroups of Northern Dene. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of any of the Alaskan Dene languages.

The grammar is written in the framework of basic linguistic theory in order to make it accessible to a wide variety of readers, including specialists in Dene languages, linguists interested in the structure of non-Indo-European languages, and teachers and learners of Upper Tanana and related languages.

Olga Lovick is a professor and head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1: Phonology, Lexical Classes, Morphology (Nebraska, 2020), editor of a collection of stories of the Tetlin people of Alaska, and coeditor of a collection of stories by women from Northway, Alaska.

List of figures
List of tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface to volume 2
Acknowledgments

Introduction to volume 2

I           Semantics

Semantic properties of nouns
Noun classification
Lexical semantics
Tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality
Lexical aspect: verb theme categories
Inflectional aspect
The modal system (inflection)
Modal particles

II          The simple clause

Word order overview
Word order in simple clauses
Nonverbal predicates
Polar Questions
Content questions
Requests
Negation
Third-person marking
Pronominal number marking
The noun phrase
Non-clausal coordination
Quantification of entities
Comparison
Prosodic augmentation

III        Beyond the clause

Coordination of clauses
Relative clauses
Adverbial clauses

27 Verbs with clausal complements

Quotative frames
Addressing individuals
Managing information structure
Insubordination

Appendix I: Portmanteau morphemes in the conjunct zone
Glossed sample texts
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	17.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	81 figures, 66 tables, 2 appendixes
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-3143-0 / 1496231430
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3143-7 / 9781496231437
Zustand	Neuware