36.1630, Books: Grammatik des Dakota (Sioux): Simons (2024)

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Date: 23-May-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Grammatik des Dakota (Sioux): Simons (2024)


Title: Grammatik des Dakota (Sioux)
Subtitle: Grundzüge des Santee-Sisseton Dialekts
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 89
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969391846%22

Author(s): Berthold Simons

17x24 cm. hardbound. ISBN 9783969391846 (Hardcover). LINCOM Studies in
Native American Linguistics 89. 362 S. EUR 162.00. Written in German.

Abstract:

Dakota is a living indigenous language of North America belonging to
the Sioux family. This grammar focuses on the description of the
Santee-Sisseton dialect,  and in the examples on entire sentences and
text excerpts. Phonetics and phonology, the parts of speech, word
formation, the grammatical categories, the simple and complex sentence
structure as well as special features of the Dakota literature are
discussed from a functional point of view. Dakota is considered to be
a representative of the active language type and has the typical
features in its grammar: a strict distinction between active and
stative verbs and a dominance of the verbal stems. The coding of the
syntactic functions of subject and object is based on the rigid word
order subject-object-verb (SOV). The coding of the semantic roles
agent, patient, recipient, etc. is based on control over the verbal
action and is marked with the active vs. stative pronominal series. An
inventory of locative and instrumental prefixes nuances the verb
meaning, sentence-final clitics determine the pragmatic status of a
sentence as a question, conjecture, narrative, etc. and optionally
characterize the speaker's attitude. Parts of the lexicon are
structured according to an older, no longer productive stock of
nominal classifiers. Temporal, local and modal relations are expressed
using an extensive inventory of adverbs, verbs and other linguistic
means. With four additional introductory lessons, Dakota learners can
acquire a basic inventory for easy communication.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dakota (dak)

Written In: German (deu)



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