32.1080, Books: A Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware (Lenape): Goddard

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:16:15
From: Joshua Snider [mundartpress at yahoo.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware (Lenape): Goddard

 


Title: A Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware (Lenape) 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Mundart Press
	   
	

Book URL: https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Southern-Unami-Delaware-Lenape/dp/0990334430/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Ives+Goddard&qid=1616622373&sr=8-1 


Author: Ives Goddard

Paperback: ISBN:  9780990334439 Pages: 226 Price: U.S. $ 25.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780990334439 Pages: 226 Price: Canada $ 30.00


Abstract:

A Grammar of the Southern Unami Dialect of the Delaware Language (Lenape):

This grammar of the Southern Unami language describes the phonology, the
inflectional and derivational morphology, and some aspects of sentence and
discourse structure. It does not include a formal treatment of syntax. The
treatment of these topics in Delaware Verbal Morphology (Goddard 1979) has
been entirely recast, and there are now sections on additional topics that
substantially fill out the description of this often complex and idiosyncratic
Algonquian language. The facts are presented discursively in small modules
with examples.

The phonemic transcription has been improved by writing the phonemic contrast
between the long and short fricatives between vowels and after /n/, and by
greater consistency in writing the marginally distinctive contrast between /u/
and the unrounded mid-central vowel, especially before /w/.

The extensive phonological alternations are illustrated with examples of
morphological contexts in which they characteristically appear. Static words,
syllables, and segments (which have short phonemes inconsistent with the more
usual phonological patterns) are treated. The inflection of nouns, pronouns,
and verbs is described and illustrated with extensive paradigms, and
particles, including enclitics, are treated.

The processes of stem derivation are outlined for primary stems and for
secondary stems (those derived from another stem). The types of reduplication
are described. Several kinds of compounds are distinguished and illustrated.

The basic facts of sentence structure are presented, including the function of
absolute and objective transitive verbs (to mark distinctions of definiteness)
and the use of oblique complements and adjuncts. Other features discussed
include verbless sentences, participles (relative clauses), focus-fronting,
discontinuous constituents, and gapping.

Southern Unami is the heritage language of the Delaware Tribe of Indians
(Bartlesville, Okla.) and the Delaware Nation of Western Oklahoma (Anadarko).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Unami (unm)


Written In: English  (eng)

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