The Timucua Language

Name: The Timucua Language | A Text-Based Reference Grammar
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A Text-Based Reference Grammar

George Aaron Broadwell(Autor*in)

University of Nebraska Press

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The Timucua Language is a comprehensive reference grammar of Timucua, the Native language of much of northern Florida during the Spanish colonial period. Though the Timucua language is no longer spoken, written Timucua was extensively used as a medium of Franciscan evangelism in the seventeenth century; indeed, the Timucua catechisms from 1612 are the earliest written records in any Native language of the land that is now the United States. Two secular letters in the language also survive from that period. As a whole, the Timucua written corpus gives us incomparable insight into the Indigenous culture and history of early Florida.

This grammar is based on a thorough study of the extant printed and handwritten documents and on careful philological and comparative analysis of the corpus. Because the content of printed Timucua material often varies considerably from the Spanish text printed in parallel with it, careful study of Timucua grammar enables linguists, anthropologists, and historians to begin to read these critical texts in Florida and southeastern U.S. history.

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"This grammar of Timucua is exhaustive, and it is impressive how George Aaron Broadwell has derived the grammar from imperfectly bilingual sources. His extensive database of Timucua texts has helped him greatly in explaining the grammar of this long-extinct language isolate. He does not shy away from the difficulties inherent in working with seventeenth-century material but discusses them in detail."-Geoffrey D. Kimball, author of Koasati Grammar "Very important to the early history of Florida, this analysis of Timucua will make it possible for others to work on the language and unlock previously inaccessible materials. . . . A remarkable achievement. George Aaron Broadwell has made a thorough search of archival Spanish materials, gathered transcriptions and translations into a database, and-in a process that can be likened to decipherment-has worked out plausible interpretations of the meanings of words and affixes."-Jack B. Martin, author of A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)

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Inhalt

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part 1. Historical background and literature overview
Chapter 1. About the language
1.1 History
1.2 Dialectal variation
1.3 Previous research and genetic affiliations
Chapter 2. The corpus and citation conventions
Chapter 3. Interpreting the corpus
3.1 Documents written by native speakers
3.2 Pareja's Arte
3.3 Orthographic and lexical diversity
Chapter 4. Grammar overview
4.1 Phonological typology
4.2 Morphological typology
4.3 Word order and simple verb inflection
4.4 Simple nouns and noun phrases
4.5 Simple postpositional phrases
4.6 More complex verb agreement
4.7 Linking clauses together
4.8 Question particles and question words
4.9 Typological classification
Part 2. Phonology
Chapter 5. Phonological inventory and orthography
5.1 Consonants
5.2 Vowels
5.3 Syllables
5.4 Words with &i&+vowel sequences
5.5 Distributional skewing
5.6 Stress
Chapter 6. Major phonological and morphophonological processes
6.1 Vowel coalescence and deletion
6.2 Round vowel harmony in roots
6.3 Vowel lowering
6.4 Front vowel lowering
6.5 Voicing after nasals
6.6 Reduplication
6.7 Phonology of loanwords
Part 3. Morphosyntax
Chapter 7. Nouns
7.1 Derivational processes
7.2 Compounds
7.3 Nominal inflectional morphology
7.4 Lack of grammatical gender
Chapter 8. Adjectives
Chapter 9. Noun phrases
9.1 Order in noun phrases
9.2 Affixes attached to noun phrases
9.3 Prenominal determiners
9.4 Possession
9.5 Definiteness
Chapter 10. Pronouns and other anaphoric elements
10.1 Personal pronouns
10.2 Demonstrative pronouns
10.3 Indefinite pronouns
10.4 Pro-verbs
Chapter 11. Numbers and quantifiers
11.1 Quantifiers and other indicators of plurality
11.2 Numbers
Chapter 12. Adverbs
12.1 Temporal adverbs
12.2 Discourse adverbs
12.3 Manner adverbs
12.4 Manner modification via reduplication
Chapter 13. Postpositions and their equivalents
13.1 ofueno 'over', 'concerning', 'after'
13.2 beta 'oblique'
13.3 toro 'without'
13.4 emoqua 'against', 'in front of'
13.5 Other postposition-like words
Chapter 14. Verbs: Morpheme order, derivation, suppletion, and incorporation
14.1 Verb structure and morpheme order
14.2 Deriving verbs
14.3 Verbal suppletion
14.4 Semiproductive derivation
14.5 Incorporation
14.6 Incorporation of verbs
Chapter 15. Verb agreement
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Agreement with third-person arguments
15.3 Ergative and absolutive agreement paradigms
15.4 Controversial issues
15.5 Unresolved issues
Chapter 16. Valency increase: Causatives and applicatives
16.1 Causatives
16.2 Applicatives
Chapter 17. Valency reduction: Reflexives, passives, and indefinites
17.1 Reflexives and reciprocals
17.2 The passive morpheme
17.3 Passive clauses
17.4 Honorific passive
17.5 Indefinite subject clauses
Chapter 18. Verbal left periphery
18.1 ta= 'away', 'at a distance', 'back'
18.2 ca= 'thus', 'in this way', 'here'
18.3 Honorific particle ano
18.4 Preverbal particles
18.5 Proclitics, prefixes, or particles?
Chapter 19. Tense, aspect, and mood
19.1 Tense, aspect, and modality morphology
19.2 Modality constructions
Chapter 20. Evidentiality, illocutionary force, and discourse status
20.1 Evidential -laqe
20.2 Declarative -la
20.3 Final suffix -laha 'emphatic'
20.4 Final suffix -lecu 'insult'
20.5 Final suffix -lechu
20.6 Final suffix -leto
20.7 Final suffix -leqete 'not at all'
20.8 Final suffix -nano
20.9 Final suffix -no
20.10 Final suffix -teo 'angry reply'
20.11 Counterfactual =lahayo
20.12 Final suffix =tiacu 'negative assertion'
Chapter 21. Negation
21.1 Ordinary verbal negation
21.2 Negation of nonverbal predicates
21.3 Negative commands
21.4 Negative proforms and adverbs
21.5 Expletive negation
Chapter 22. Light verbs
22.1 Quoso 'do'
22.2 Moso 'do'
22.3 Puqua 'do to many'
22.4 Fa 'be located'
22.5 Queni 'be'
Chapter 23. Copular and existential constructions
23.1 Incorporating copula le
23.2 Existentials and possessives
Part 4. Functional systems
Chapter 24. Grammatical relations
24.1 Case marking
24.2 Possessor raising
Chapter 25. Pragmatically marked structures
25.1 Questions
25.2 Imperatives
25.3 Exclamations
25.4 Other special verb constructions
Chapter 26. Clause combinations
26.1 Complement clauses
26.2 Adverbial clauses
26.3 Clause chaining and switch reference
26.4 Discourse clitic =qere
26.5 Putting it all together
26.6 Clauses in discourse
Chapter 27. Relative clauses
27.1 Tense restrictions in definite relative clauses
27.2 Relative clauses with no overt head
Chapter 28. Coordination
28.1 Coordination of noun phrases
28.2 Coordination of clauses
28.3 The =chiqe clitic
Appendix: Morphemes
Notes
References
Index

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