Book: Grammar of Jamul Tiipay (Yuman language, San Diego county, CA)

[Scott McGinnis]

New Publication from Mouton de Gruyter

>>From the series
Mouton Grammar Library
Series Editors: Georg Bossong and Bernard Comrie

Amy Miller
A Grammar of Jamul Tiipay

2001. 24 x 16 cm. xvi, 379 pages.
Cloth. DM 298,-/ öS 2175,- (RRP) /sFr 265,-/US$ approx. 149.00
>>From 1.1.02: EUR 148.00
ISBN 3-11-016451-5
(Mouton Grammar Library 23)

The Mouton Grammar Library series serves the needs of everyone who
wants to know more about linguistic diversity in general, and/or about
specific languages of a given area or culture. The present volume is a
descriptive grammar of the Jamul variety of Tiipay (also known as
Jamul Diegueño), a Yuman language spoken in San Diego County,
California.  The nine chapters of the grammar cover the phonology of
the language, lexical structure, derivational and inflectional
morphology, clause structure, relative and nominalized complement
clauses, clause combining (with particular attention to switch
reference), and auxiliary constructions. Sample texts and a discussion
of discourse are included.  In writing the grammar, the author used
both textual and elicited data.  Elicited data were crucial to the
phonemic analysis and formed the basis for the author's understanding
of lexical and derivational morphology, ditransitive constructions,
reflexives, emphasis on the subject, and certain
conjunctions. Discourse data, on the other hand, contributed greatly
to the author's understanding of clause structure, switch reference
marking, auxiliary verbs, and the use of plural forms.

Contents

Introduction
Phonology
Lexical structure
Derivation
Inflection
Clause structure
Relative clauses and nominalized complement clauses
Clause combining
Auxiliary constructions
Sample texts and notes on discourse

The book contains a morpheme and a subject index.


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