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1 online resource |
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English language |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"Nakón-i'a wo! Beginning Nakoda is a language resource designed to help revitalize and document Nakoda, now spoken in Montana and Saskatchewan. Written for beginning learners of Nakoda (also known as Assiniboine), this workbook, arranged thematically, provides a Nakoda/English lexicon, a vocabulary, a table of kinship terms, a glossary of linguistic terminology, and exercises to do after each lesson."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Thanking, Farewell, and Self-Introduction -- Nakoda Alphabet and Sound System -- Syllables and Accent -- Parts of Speech -- Note on Spelling -- Chapter 1 Exercises -- Chapter 2 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Word Order in Nakoda -- Demonstratives -- Class 1: Regular Stem Verbs -- Dual ų- "we two" -- Sounds: Uvulars ǧ and ȟ -- Chapter 2 Exercises -- Chapter 3 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Interrogative Sentences -- Imperative Particles wo and bo -- Class 2: Y-Stem Verbs |
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Potential/Future Marker -kta -- Sounds: Glottal stop ['] -- Chapter 3 Exercises -- Chapter 4 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Cardinal Numbers -- Ordinal numbers -- Mathematical operations -- Age and Time -- Distance and Height -- Chapter 4 Exercises -- Chapter 5 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Kinship Nouns -- Reference to Time: Past, Present, and Future/Potential -- Class 3: Nasal Conjugation Verbs (or N-Conjugation) -- Plural of Subjects -- Chapter 5 Exercises -- Chapter 6 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Negation -- Active and Stative Verbs |
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Stative Verbs: Colours -- How to Say "To Be" in Nakoda -- Sounds: Nasal Spread -- Chapter 6 Exercises -- Chapter 7 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Declarative Male Enclitic no -- "Let's" Constructions -- Conjunction Markers: í˛š "and, also, him/her/it/they too" -- hí˛kna "and" -- eštá "or" -- Spatial Adverbs and Postpositions -- Chapter 7 Exercises -- Chapter 8 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Asking Questions with Where, When, and Who -- Verbs of Departing, Going, and Arriving -- Active Verbs: Intransitive and Transitive |
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Inflections of Transitive Verbs (Third Person Object) -- Sounds: Ejective Consonants -- Chapter 8 Exercises -- Chapter 9 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- More Verbs Expressing States and Bodily Functions -- Ownership and Possession -- Part/Whole Relations -- Noun Quantifiers edáhą "some" and dóna "some, many" -- Chapter 9 Exercises -- Chapter 10 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Complex Noun Formation -- Noun Incorporation -- Independent Pronouns for Focus and Contrast -- Intensifiers -ȟ and -ȟtįyą -- Chapter 10 Exercises -- Chapter 11 |
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Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Adverbs of Time/Space and Manner -- Formation of Irregular Verbs -- Inflections of Transitive Verbs (Third Person Subject) -- Chapter 11 Exercises -- Chapter 12 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Tribes and Tribal Affiliation -- Transitive Verb Inflections: -ci- "I on you" and -maya- "you on me" -- Aspectual Markers -- Chapter 12 Exercises -- Chapter 13 -- Objectives, Dialogues, and Vocabulary -- Linkers: cén, nécen, žécen, ecén -- Complex Sentences with the Conditionals štén "if, when" and hą́da(hą) "whenever" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Assiniboine dialect -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
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Assiniboine dialect. |
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Assiniboine dialect -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
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Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
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Assiniboine dialect -- Vocabulary.
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Vocabulary. |
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Electronic books.
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Textbooks -- for English speakers.
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Electronic books.
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Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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| Added Author |
Kennedy, Wilma, author.
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Collette, Vincent, 1976- editor.
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| Added Title |
Beginning Nakoda |
| Other Form: |
Print version: McArthur, Armand. Nakón-i'a wo! Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2019] 9780889776647 (OCoLC)1090202266 |
| ISBN |
9780889776630 (electronic book) |
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9780889776647 HTML |
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0889776644 HTML |
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9780889776630 electronic book |
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0889776636 electronic book |
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