Osage Grammar
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Osage Grammar
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Author : Carolyn Quintero
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Osage Grammar written by Carolyn Quintero and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
When Europeans first made contact with the Osages, they lived in present-day Missouri, along the Osage River. After being forced onto a reservation, the Osages purchased land from the Cherokees in Indian Territory and resettled in northeastern Oklahoma in the later part of the nineteenth century. Today the Osage tribe numbers about 18,000, but only two elders still speak the traditional language, a member of the Siouan family of languages. Osage Grammar is the first documentation of how the Osage language works, including more than two thousand sentences from Osage speakers, and a detailed description of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. Also featured are such components as verb conjugations, derivation, and suffixes; kinship terms; and the nominal system. The importance of documenting a language, especially when on the verge of extinction, can hardly be overstated. Growing up in Osage County, Oklahoma, Carolyn Quintero has been documenting the Osage language for twenty years, speaking to more than a dozen elders and transcribing hundreds of hours of interviews. Her research could not now be repeated since most of the elders whose words appear on these pages are gone. This book will become an essential reference and guide for all scholars and students interested in the Osage language and in other Siouan languages of the West. Osage Grammar will also serve as a bedrock for the present revitalization of Osage culture and language within the community.
Osage Dictionary
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Author : Carolyn Quintero
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-10-22
Osage Dictionary written by Carolyn Quintero and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Osage, a language of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan family, was spoken until recently by tribal members in northeastern Oklahoma. No longer in daily use, it was in danger of extinction. Carolyn Quintero, a linguist raised in Osage County, worked with the last few fluent speakers of the language to preserve the sounds and textures of their complex speech. Compiled after painstaking work with these tribal elders, her Osage Dictionary is the definitive lexicon for that tongue, enhanced with thousands of phrases and sentences that illustrate fine points of usage. Drawing on a collaboration with the late Robert Bristow, an amateur linguist who had compiled copious notes toward an Osage dictionary, Quintero interviewed more than a dozen Osage speakers to explore crucial aspects of their language. She has also integrated into the dictionary explications of relevant material from Francis La Flesche’s 1932 dictionary of Osage and from James Owen Dorsey’s nineteenth-century research. The dictionary includes over three thousand main entries, each of which gives full grammatical information and notes variant pronunciations. The entries also provide English translations of copious examples of usage. The book’s introductory sections provide a description of syntax, morphology, and phonology. Employing a simple Siouan adaptation of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Quintero’s transcription of Osage sounds is more precise and accurate than that in any previous work on the language. An index provides Osage equivalents for more than five thousand English words and expressions, facilitating quick reference. As the most comprehensive lexical record of the Osage language—the only one that will ever be possible, given the loss of fluent speakers—Quintero’s dictionary is indispensable not only for linguists but also for Osage students seeking to relearn their language. It is a living monument to the elegance and complexity of a language nearly lost to time and stands as a major contribution to the study of North American Indians.
B Ajlom Ii Nkotz I J Publications A Concise Osage Grammar
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Author : Sandra Chigüela
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-04-27
B Ajlom Ii Nkotz I J Publications A Concise Osage Grammar written by Sandra Chigüela and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-27 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A Detailed and Thorough Osage Grammar with an English - Osage Dictionary at the back of the book. This book is the perfect linguistic guide for studying and learning Osage Grammar.
A Dictionary Of The Osage Language
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Author : Francis La Flesche
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
A Dictionary Of The Osage Language written by Francis La Flesche and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Language Complexity
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Author : Matti Miestamo
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Language Complexity written by Matti Miestamo and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 is the first collection of articles devoted to the topic. The sixteen chapters of the volume approach the notion of language complexity from a variety of perspectives. The papers are divided into three thematic sections that reflect the central themes of the book: Typology and theory, Contact and change, Creoles and pidgins. The book is mainly intended for typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and creolists, as well as all linguists interested in language complexity in general. As the first collective volume on a very topical theme, the book is expected to be of lasting interest to the linguistic community.
A Choctaw Reference Grammar
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Author : George Aaron Broadwell
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2006-12-01
A Choctaw Reference Grammar written by George Aaron Broadwell and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-01 with Social Science categories.
The authoritative reference on the grammar of the Choctaw language, written and compiled by its leading scholarly expert.
The Canadian Sioux
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Author : James H. Howard
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01
The Canadian Sioux written by James H. Howard and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Social Science categories.
The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984, helps fill that gap in the literature and remains relevant even in the twenty-first century. Based on Howard’s fieldwork in the 1970s and supplemented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux, Second Edition descriptively reconstructs their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux although long forgotten by their relatives in the United States. Rich in detail, it presents an abundance of information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devoted to Canadian Sioux religion and describes such ceremonies as the Vision Quest, the Medicine Feast, the Medicine Dance, the Sun Dance, warrior society dances, and the Ghost Dance. This second edition includes previously unpublished images, many of them photographed by Howard, and some of his original drawings.
New Voices For Old Words
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Author : David J. Costa
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
New Voices For Old Words written by David J. Costa and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Published In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Rethinking Universals
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Author : Jan Wohlgemuth
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-03-26
Rethinking Universals written by Jan Wohlgemuth and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations. Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages.
A Fur Trader On The Upper Missouri
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Author : Jean-Baptiste Truteau
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
A Fur Trader On The Upper Missouri written by Jean-Baptiste Truteau and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with History categories.
"In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."