34.1211, Books: A Grammar of Meskwaki: Goddard

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Subject: 34.1211, Books: A Grammar of Meskwaki: Goddard

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Date: 08-Apr-2023
From: Joshua Snider [mundartpress at yahoo.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Meskwaki


Title: A Grammar of Meskwaki
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Mundart Press
Book URL: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-grammar-of-meskwaki-ives-
goddard/1143197423?ean=9798986545035

author: Ives Goddard
Paperback: ISBN: 9798986545035 Pages: 516 Price: U.S. $ $35.00
Abstract:

This book is a grammar of Meskwaki, an Algonquian language spoken
today in Tama County, Iowa. There are two factors that make Meskwaki
of particular interest and importance. It is arguably the most archaic
language of the Algonquian family in preserving the word shapes of the
ancestral Algonquian language that is reconstructed as
Proto-Algonquian by linguists. And it is documented by a very large
collection of texts written by numerous native speakers more than a
century ago that is kept in the National Anthropological Archives of
the Smithsonian Institution. Meskwaki is a highly inflected language
with extremely free word order. This grammar includes separate
chapters on phonology (the sound system), grammatical categories,
inflections, the derivation of stems, sentence structure, and some
aspects of how sentences are connected to form longer utterances and
narratives (discourse). The uses of the proximate and obviative third
person categories are described and illustrated with numerous
examples. The use of discontinuous compound words, phrases, and
clauses is also described. Extensive reference is made throughout to
the published and unpublished textual sources. An appendix lists and
analyzes all the inflectional endings in the two long texts that have
been published with interlinearized analysis, "The Autobiography of a
Meskwaki Woman" and "The Owl Sacred Pack." Meskwaki is the heritage
language of the Meskwaki Nation (the Sac and Fox Tribe of the
Mississippi in Iowa).

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Meskwaki (sac)

Language Family(ies): Algonquian

Areal Regions: Algonquian

Written In: English (eng)

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