Ute reference grammar
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Bibliographic Information
Ute reference grammar
(Culture and language use : studies in anthropological linguistics / editor, Gunter Senft, v. 3)
John Benjamins, c2011
- : hb
- : pb
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [431]-433
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster of intriguing features, best viewed from the perspective of diachronic change and grammaticalization. The book presents a comprehensive synchronic description of grammatical structures and their communicative functions, as well as a diachronic account of a grammar in the midst of change. The book is the first of a 3-volume series which also includes a collection of oral texts and a dictionary. Ute speakers and tribal members may find in the present volume a step-by-step description of how words are combined into meaningful communication. Linguists may find a detailed account of one language, an account that is unabashedly informed by universals of grammar, communication and change.
Table of Contents
- 1. Table of contents
- 2. Preface
- 3. Foreword
- 4. Namu-may-vaa-tu-
- 5. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 6. Chapter 2. Sound system and orthography
- 7. Chapter 3. Word classes and word structure
- 8. Chapter 4. Simple clauses: Verb types, participant roles, and grammatical relations
- 9. Chapter 5. The diachrony of Ute case-marking
- 10. Chapter 6. Tense, aspect, modality and negation
- 11. Chapter 7. Noun phrases-I: Referential coherence
- 12. Chapter 8. Noun phrases-II: Larger noun modifiers
- 13. Chapter 9. Verbal complements
- 14. Chapter 10. De-Transitive Voice
- 15. Chapter 11. The diachrony of Ute passives
- 16. Chapter 12. Relative clauses
- 17. Chapter 13. Contrastive focus and emphasis
- 18. Chapter 14. Non-declarative speech acts
- 19. Chapter 15. Possession
- 20. Chapter 16. Comparative constructions
- 21. Chapter 17. Adverbial clauses
- 22. Chapter 18. Clause chaining and discourse coherence
- 23. Chapter 19. Lexical derivation patterns
- 24. Chapter 20. Interjections
- 25. Bibliography
- 26. Index
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