| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
A Grammar of Upper Tanana is a comprehensive text that performs the impressive task of providing a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
I Background -- About this grammar -- About Upper Tanana -- Dialects -- Some cultural background -- II Phonology -- Consonants -- Vowels -- Tone -- A historical perspective on the sound system -- Stem-initial fricative lenition -- Syllable structure -- Light and heavy stems -- The practical orthography -- III Lexical categories -- Nouns -- Verbs -- Free postpositions -- Adverbs -- Directionals -- Adjectives and modifiers -- Pronouns -- Numerals -- Other minor word categories -- IV Morphology -- Possessor inflection -- Inflection of postpositions -- Verbal morphology: an overview -- Verb theme categories -- Verb stem -- Voice/valence markers -- Subject marking -- Conjugation and mode prefixes -- Qualifiers -- Pronominal prefixes -- Distributive prefix -- Incorporated roots -- Iterative prefix -- Adverbial-derivational prefixes -- Bound postpositions -- Verbal suffixes -- References. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Upper Tanana language -- Grammar.
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Upper Tanana language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Phonology, lexical classes, morphology |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lovick, Olga Charlotte. Grammar of Upper Tanana. Volume 1, Phonology, lexical classes, morphology. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] (DLC) 2019014268 |
| ISBN |
9781496219213 (electronic book) |
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149621921X (electronic book) |
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9781496213150 |
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