26.757, Diss: Iroquoian, Lake Iroquoian, Northern Iroquoian; Wyandot; Lang Documentation: Kopris: 'A Grammar and Dictionary of Wyandot'

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Subject: 26.757, Diss: Iroquoian, Lake Iroquoian, Northern Iroquoian; Wyandot; Lang Documentation: Kopris: 'A Grammar and Dictionary of Wyandot'

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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 20:12:23
From: Craig Kopris [ckopris at yahoo.com]
Subject: A Grammar and Dictionary of Wyandot

 
Institution: University at Buffalo 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2001 

Author: Craig Kopris

Dissertation Title: A Grammar and Dictionary of Wyandot 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Wyandot (wya)

Language Family(ies): Iroquoian
                      Lake Iroquoian 
                      Northern Iroquoian 


Dissertation Director(s):
Karin Michelson
Matthew Dryer
Wolfgang Wölck
Blair Rudes

Dissertation Abstract:

Wyandot is a Northern Iroquoian language. Although no longer spoken (the last
speakers having lived in the 1960s), there are extensive texts prepared by
Marius C. Barbeau. These texts are the basis for this grammar and dictionary.
The nature of Barbeau's data created several problematic issues that needed to
be resolved before analysis. The first problem was an orthography that was
both under- and over-differentiated, as well as described inconsistently,
leaving certain expected phonetic and phonemic distinctions (e.g. aspiration,
voicing) opaque. A second problem was the use of ambiguous and inconsistent
word boundaries, interfering with morphological analysis.
Although previous discussions of Wyandot in the Iroquoian literature have been
primarily diachronic in nature, the orientation taken here is synchronic.
Phonological and morphological analyses were tied as closely as possible to
the surface forms as given by Barbeau, to reduce the level of abstraction of
underlying forms.
Features distinguishing Wyandot from other Iroquoian languages, such as
further morphological elaboration (anteprepronominal prefixes), are clarified.
Finally, evidence is given showing that Wyandot is not a daughter language of
Wendat (Huron), but rather a sister language, probably Tionontati (Petun,
Tobacco).
Appendices show sample pages of the source data, two fully interlinearized
texts, and a morpheme-level Wyandot-English root list with an English-Wyandot
index.







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