[Algonquiana] New books out!

[David Costa]

Hello all:

This is to announce three new books by Ives Goddard on Unami Delaware (Lenape) which are now out on Mundart Press, and available on Amazon:

A Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware (Lenape)
(https://www.amazon.com/Gramma.../dp/0990334430/ref=sr_1_1... <https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Southern-Unami-Delaware-Lenape/dp/0990334430/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Goddard%20southern%20unami%20delaware&qid=1615840399&s=books&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR13VsZAYwVdtjT1GO1trBlZeb1LJPR7wlXmkJOZdRw_RezPRXGrR51SRJM>)

A Harmony of the Four Gospels in Delaware; The translation by Ira D. Blanchard and James Conner (1837-1839) Volume I
(https://www.amazon.com/Harmon.../dp/0990334449/ref=sr_1_2... <https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-Delaware-translation-Blanchard-1837-1839/dp/0990334449/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1615840092&refinements=p_27%3AIra%20D%20Blanchard&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Ira%20D%20Blanchard&fbclid=IwAR2dT_ejdrPmQ0aLOmjJ1VhTarL05B8zy_kJYJ3B7mL5xCaWw5xld2vtZhk>)

A Harmony of the Four Gospels in Delaware; The translation by Ira D. Blanchard and James Conner (1837-1839) Volume II
(https://www.amazon.com/Harmon.../dp/0990334457/ref=sr_1_1... <https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-Delaware-translation-Blanchard-1837-1839/dp/0990334457/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1615839440&refinements=p_27%3AIves%20Goddard&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Ives%20Goddard&fbclid=IwAR0ubhP6blwb5D5Jeg6SsIfmnozXARmT78mYZ2hItFX5fb_yg6ecz5UE8f0>)


The following is the author's description of these volumes:

The Grammar:
A Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware (Lenape), by Ives Goddard
Petoskey MI : Mundart Press, 2021.
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).

The Harmony:
A Harmony of the Four Gospels in Delaware : the translation by Ira D. Blanchard and James Conner. Vol. I and Vol. II. Edited and translated by Ives Goddard.
Petoskey, MI : Mundart Press, 2021.
These two volumes are an edition of the Delaware translation of a Harmony of the four Gospels of the New Testament that was done by the Baptist missionary Ira D. Blanchard aided by a young interpreter named James Conner and very likely one or more others. Blanchard’s title was, in shortened form: The history of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The book was printed in what was then Indian Territory but is now Kansas in the years 1837 to 1839. The text is presented in a four-line format, including the spelling as printed, a transcription into phonemic spelling, a translation of this, and the original source text. The language is specifically what was historically the Southern Unami dialect of Delaware and is now also called Lenape. It is the heritage language of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville, Okla.) and the Delaware Nation of Western Oklahoma (Anadarko).