Description
Book SynopsisGeoffrey Kimball presents the first grammar of the American Indian language Atakapa, Yukhíti Kóy, once spoken in coastal southwestern Louisiana and coastal eastern Texas.
Trade Review"This is a meticulously documented and useful reference source. . . . Because of the lack of documentation on this subject, any resource is a treasure for language revival and further academic studies."—Jurgita Antoine,
Tribal College Journal“There has not been a comprehensive reference grammar of the Atakapa language, and so this book fills a real need. There is very careful philological work here.”—George Aaron Broadwell, author of
A Choctaw Reference Grammar“This reference grammar will make a huge and much-needed contribution to Atakapan language studies and to linguistics in general. Geoffrey Kimball has clearly well researched the language based on both the original Gatschet field notes and the published Gatschet and Swanton Atakapa dictionary.”—David V. Kaufman, author of
Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories: Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography and
Atakapa Ishakkoy DictionaryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. Phonology Orthography
Atakapa Phonemes
Accent
Phonetic Processes
Active Phonological Processes 2. The Verb and Verbal Morphology Aorist Mode
Preterite Mode
Dubitative Mode
Future Mode
Progressive Mode
Subordinate Mode
Gerund
Participle
Stative Verbs
Negation
Aspect Suffixes
Verbal Prefixes
Adjectives
Adverbs
Comparison of Adjectives
Verbal Derivational Processes
Verb Pluralization
Suppletion 3. Nouns and Nominal Morphology Animacy
Mass Status
Ordering of Nominal Morphology
Nominal Cases
Noun Pluralization
Noun Possession
Pronouns
Deictics
Postpositions
Numerals
Noun Formation 4. Syntax Ergativity
Fluid-S Marking
Word Order
Locative Compounds
Focus
Clausal Complements
Conjunction and Disjunction
Omitted Inflection in Coordinate Contexts
Relative Clause Equivalents
Interrogative Sentences
Idiomatic Expressions 5. Texts Text 1: Cultural and Historical Topics
Text 2: The Skin-Desirer
Text 3: Treatment of the Heads of Infants
Text 4: Form Letter
Text 5: Biographical Sketch of Kišmok
Text 6: Notes on the Family of Tottokš
Text 7: Traditional Treatment of Disease
Text 8: Traditional Burial Practices
Text 9: A Fight among Black People in Lake Charles Yukhíti–English Vocabulary
Appendix 1: Hiyékiti (Eastern Atakapa)–English Vocabulary
Appendix 2: Orkokisak (Western Atakapa)–English Vocabulary
Appendix 3: Yukhíti Kinship Terminology
References
Index
