A Grammar of Southern Pomo

by Neil Alexander Walker

Overview

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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496217653
Publisher:	Nebraska
Publication date:	02/15/2020
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Neil Alexander Walker is a research fellow at James Cook University.
 

Table of Contents

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|| ~ ||=ʔyo||
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

Editorial Reviews

“Clearly written and well argued, this is undoubtedly a major contribution to our knowledge of Indigenous languages of North America.”—Alexandra Aikhenvald, Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University
 

Alexandra Aikhenvald

“This detailed grammar of recently extinct Southern Pomo is an important contribution to our understanding of the Indigenous languages of North America and a fitting tribute to the language’s speakers and to the community in which it was once spoken.”—Bernard Comrie, Distinguished Faculty Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
 
 

Bernard Comrie

“This is a beautiful, sophisticated description of a language of extraordinary phonological and morphological complexity. The Southern Pomo language is described in a remarkably accessible way, always with attention to its cultural and historical context.”—Marianne Mithun, professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Marianne Mithun

“A Grammar of Southern Pomo is a remarkable contribution to the scholarship on Indigenous languages of California. It is full of rich, well-illustrated phenomena at every level and should be of interest to anyone concerned with American Indigenous cultures.”—Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and director of Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai‘i Digital Language Archive
 

Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker