The Lillooet language : phonology, morphology, syntax
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The Lillooet language : phonology, morphology, syntax
（First Nations languages）
UBC Press, c1997
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Bibliography: p. [269]-271
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an Indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction. The author discusses three major aspects of the language - sound system, word structure, and syntax - in great detail. The classical structuralism method of analysis, as developed in North America by Leonard Bloomfield and his followers, is used to look at every aspect of Lillooet in terms of its function and position within the whole structure of the language. Van Eijk explains terms and procedures in order to make the book accessible not only to the advanced linguist, but also to the undergraduate student with basic linguistic training. Written with great clarity and well organized, the book is illustrated with copious examples drawn from many years of fieldwork in St'at'imc territory.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Symbols and abbreviations
Part 1: Phonology Chart of phonemes
1 Phonemes: General Information & Phonetic Data
2 Movement of the Stress
3 Distribution of schwa
4 Internal Sandhi
5 Retracted phonemes
6 Structure of roots
7 Special Questions
Part 2: Morphology Chart of morphological operations
8 Introduction to Morphology
9 The Nominalizer s-
10 Stem-Forming Prefixes
11 Compounding
12 Reduplication
13 Interior Glottalization
14 Aspectual Suffixes
16 Abstract Suffixes
17 Reflexive and Reciprocal Suffixes
18 Intransitivizers and Transitivizers
19 Numerals and Numerical Substitutes
20 Verbal Substitutes
21 Summing-Up of Stem-Formation
22 Personal Affixation
23 Invariable Words: General Remarks
24 Personal Pronouns and Related Substitutes
25 Demonstrative Pronouns
26 Demonstrative Adverbs
27 Proper Nouns
28 Full Word Conjunctions and Adverbs (Particles)
29 Sentence-Equivalents
30 Greetings, Exclamations, and Interjections
31 Articles
32 Enclitics
33 Proclitic Conjunctions
34 Prepositions
Part 3: Syntax
35 Introduction to Syntax
36 Mono-Clausal Sentences
37 Multi-Clausal Sentences
38 Syntax: Special Questions
Appendices
39 A Lillooet Text
40 Comparison of Lillooet Orthographies
Bibliography
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