Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781496242839 |
| ISBN10: | 1496242831 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 458 pages |
| Size: | 254x178 mm |
| Weight: | 666 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 1 illustration, 1 map, 45 tables, 10 charts, 7 appendixes |
| 700 |
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A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication: 1 May 2025
Number of Volumes: Cloth Over Boards
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Short description:
Linda A. Cumberland presents a new grammar for the Native American language Assiniboine, also known by the endonym Nakoda, a member of the Siouan language family.
Long description:
A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) is the first complete grammar of the Native American language Assiniboine, also known by the endonym Nakoda, a member of the Siouan language family. It addresses all major grammatical categories, including phonology, nouns, verbs, adverbs, enclitics, determiners, syntax, and kinship terminology. It also includes groundbreaking analysis of motion verbs of coming and going, demonstrating that such verbs compose a closed system that is consistent in varying degrees across all Siouan languages.
Over the past century and a half, the classification of the Assiniboine language has suffered due to a complicated history regarding the Dakotan branch of the Siouan language family. Once spoken over a vast contiguous area of the northern plains, Assiniboine/Nakoda is used today among the Assiniboine people in and around Fort Belknap and Fort Peck in Montana and in five reserves in Saskatchewan. A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) establishes the singular basis of the language while also relating its unique features to other Great Plains American Indian languages.
Over the past century and a half, the classification of the Assiniboine language has suffered due to a complicated history regarding the Dakotan branch of the Siouan language family. Once spoken over a vast contiguous area of the northern plains, Assiniboine/Nakoda is used today among the Assiniboine people in and around Fort Belknap and Fort Peck in Montana and in five reserves in Saskatchewan. A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) establishes the singular basis of the language while also relating its unique features to other Great Plains American Indian languages.
“A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) is an outstanding work that describes the phonological, grammatical, and syntactical structures of Nakoda, as well as some lexical peculiarities. Since this grammar is written within a descriptive framework, it is highly accessible and will be useful for both researchers and Nakoda-language teachers and students.”—Vincent Collette, coauthor of A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine)
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Rules
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Phonology
3. Nouns and Pronouns
4. Kinship
5. Adverbs
6. Verbs
7. The KI Morphemes
8. Motion Verbs
9. Enclitics and Postverbal Particles
10. Determiners
11. Syntax
Appendix A: Big Snake
Appendix B: ?któmi and Fox
Appendix C: Crow Belt Ceremony
Appendix D: Instrumental Prefixes
Appendix E: Orthographic Equivalencies
Appendix F: Idioms
Appendix G: Consultants
Notes
References
