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Informationen zum Autor Neil Alexander Walker is a research fellow at the Cairns Institute at James Cook University. Klappentext A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Zusammenfassung A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. The Cultural, Ecological, and Sociolinguistic Context of the Language 1.1. The Name of the Language 1.2. Previous Research 1.3. Demography at Contact 1.3.1. History after Contact 1.4. The Natural Setting 1.5. Material Culture 1.6. Genetic and Areal Affiliations 1.7. Dialects 1.8. Sociolinguistic Situation 1.8.1. Viability 1.8.2. Loan Words 1.9. The Corpus 1.9.1. Consultants and Other Sources 1.9.2. Presentation of Data 2. Word Structure 2.1. Typological Sketch 2.2. Phonological Inventory and Orthography 2.2.1. Consonants 2.2.2. Vowels 2.2.3. Stress 2.3. Phonetics 2.3.1. Voicing Distinction in Obstruents 2.3.2. Phonemic Status of the Glottal Stop 2.4. Syllable Structure 2.5. Word Structure 2.6. Major Phonological and Morphophonemic Processes 2.6.1. Vowel Harmony 2.6.2. Vowel Deletion 2.6.3. Consonant Alternations 2.6.4. Consonant Assimilation and Dissimilation 2.6.5. Consonant Deletion 2.6.6. Laryngeal Increments 2.7. Relaxed Speech Rules and Contractions 2.8. Word Classes 2.8.1. Nouns 2.8.2. Pronouns 2.8.3. Verbs 2.8.4. Modifiers 2.8.5. Adverbs 2.8.6. The Auxiliary ||yo|| ~ ||=¿yo|| 2.8.7. Particles or Other Minor Word Classes 2.9. The Noun Phrase 2.9.1. Case-Marking NP Enclitics 2.9.2. Other NP Enclitics 2.9.3. Alienable and Inalienable Possession 3. Sentence Structure 3.1. Intransitives 3.2. Transitives 3.3. Ditransitives 3.4. Grammatical Relations 3.4.1. Agent/Patient Case System 3.4.2. Subject/Object Determiner Enclitics 3.5. Voice and Valence-Related Constructions 3.6. Tense/Aspect/Modality and Evidentials 3.7. Constituent Order 3.8. Negation 3.8.1. Bound Negative Morphemes (and Response Particle) 3.8.2. Words with Inherently Negative Meaning 3.9. Questions 3.10. Clause Combinations 3.10.1. Complement Clauses 3.10.2. Switch-Reference 3.10.3. Nominalized Clauses 3.10.4. Coordination Appendix 1: 2012 Visit with Olive Fulwider and Photographs Appendix 2: Sample Text Notes References Index...
