[Algonquiana] Studies in Plains Cree Grammar and Style (with info)

[David Costa]

Apologies, I see that the attachment in my previous email apparently disappeared. Here is the info in plain text:


ALGONQUIAN AND IROQUOIAN LINGUISTICS 

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JUST PUBLISHED: 

Studies in Plains Cree Grammar and Style 
H.C. Wolfart 

Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 24 

2022. Pp. xxxii, 1266; ISBN 978-0-921064-24-4 $ 90 
[Price includes carriage; not subject to GST/PST; no discounts or returns; 
for orders from outside Canada, the price is to be read as US-$ or Euro; cheques payable to University of Manitoba -Voices of Rupert's Land Fund.] 

Based on the texts of a single speaker, the documentary approach of these essays is generally more fine-grained than is common for grammatical research in poorly studied languages. At the same time, this book is intended as a companion volume to the auto.biographical texts of Sarah Whitecalf, recorded on a number of occasions in 1989 and 1990 and published in 2021 with a preface and photographs by: Ted Whitecalf: mitoni niya nêhiyaw -nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya I Cree is who I am -me, I am truly a Cree woman: A life told by Sarah Whitecalf (Publications of the Algonquian Text Society/ Collection de la Societe d'edition de textes algonquiens) 

In Part I (pp. 1-124), four essays on grammatical technique focus on structures which appear in all literary texts in Plains Cree. In the prose of Sarah Whitecalf, however, the four features chosen for analysis seem especially salient. 

Part II (pp. 125-202) follows the traditional form of editor's commentaries on two of Sarah Whitecalf's texts (chapters 6 and 7 in Whitecalf 2021); they review linguistic and stylistic aspects of each text in its narrative and historical contexts. 

The grammatical analyses in Part III (pp. 203-381) include evidence taken from ot.er MODERN TEXTS (texts recorded since 1967) and, in particular, from the EARLY 

TEXTS which Leonard Bloomfield had collected at Sarah Whitecalf' s home of Nakiwacîhk I Sweetgrass two generations previously, in 1925. 
Part IV (pp. 383-1266) is a first attempt at a grammatical survey, exhaustive in coverage, of a substantial corpus of Plains Cree prose. With its alphabetically arranged lemmata, it may also be taken as a source-book towards a future reference grammar of Plains Cree.