{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-upper-tanana-volume-1-9781496222275","title":"A Grammar of Upper Tanana Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 provides a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of Upper Tanana, the book meticulously details a language that is currently fluently spoken by approximately fifty people in limited parts of Alaska's eastern interior and Canada's Yukon Territory. As part of the Dene (Athabascan) language group, Upper Tanana embodies elements of both the Alaskan and Canadian subgroups of Northern Dene. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of any of the Alaskan Dene languages.    With the goal of preserving a language no longer consistently taught to younger generations, Olga Lovick's foundational study is framed within the traditional form of linguistic theory that allows linguists and nonspecialists alike to study a vulnerable language that exists outside the dominant Indo-European mainstream. This text provides a substantive bulwark to protect a language acutely threatened \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e moves an already high bar for work on Dene languages even higher with its in-depth coverage of the standard topics enhanced by sections on the semantics of various morphemes, interjections, and nonverbal predicates. It is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of this language.”—Keren Rice, former president of both the Canadian Linguistic Association and the Linguistic Society of America\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables \u003cbr\u003e List of Figures\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e I Background\u003cbr\u003e 1 About this grammar \u003cbr\u003e 2 About Upper Tanana \u003cbr\u003e 3 Dialects \u003cbr\u003e 4 Some cultural background \u003cbr\u003e II Phonology\u003cbr\u003e 5 Consonants \u003cbr\u003e 6 Vowels \u003cbr\u003e 7 Tone\u003cbr\u003e 8 A historical perspective on the sound system \u003cbr\u003e 9 Stem-initial fricative lenition\u003cbr\u003e 10 Syllable structure\u003cbr\u003e 11 Light and heavy stems\u003cbr\u003e 12 The practical orthography\u003cbr\u003e III Lexical categories\u003cbr\u003e 13 Nouns\u003cbr\u003e 14 Verbs\u003cbr\u003e 15 Free postpositions\u003cbr\u003e 16 Adverbs\u003cbr\u003e 17 Directionals\u003cbr\u003e 18 Adjectives and modifiers\u003cbr\u003e 19 Pronouns\u003cbr\u003e 20 Numerals\u003cbr\u003e 21 Other minor word categories\u003cbr\u003e IV Morphology\u003cbr\u003e 22 Possessor inflection\u003cbr\u003e 23 Inflection of postpositions\u003cbr\u003e 24 Verbal morphology: An overview\u003cbr\u003e 25 Verb theme categories\u003cbr\u003e 26 Verb stem\u003cbr\u003e 27 Voice\/valence markers\u003cbr\u003e 28 Subject marking\u003cbr\u003e 29 Conjugation and mode prefixes\u003cbr\u003e 30 Qualifiers\u003cbr\u003e 31 Pronominal prefixes\u003cbr\u003e 32 Distributive prefix\u003cbr\u003e 33 Incorporated roots\u003cbr\u003e 34 Iterative prefix\u003cbr\u003e 35 Adverbial-derivational prefixes\u003cbr\u003e 36 Bound postpositions\u003cbr\u003e 37 Verbal suffixes\u003cbr\u003e References","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531184185687,"sku":"9781496222275","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496222275.jpg?v=1731882068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-grammar-of-upper-tanana-volume-1-9781496222275","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}