
A Tsilhqut'in Grammar
Eung-Do Cook(Author)
University of British Columbia Press
Published on 1. September 2013
Book
Hardback
670 pages
978-0-7748-2516-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Tsilhqut'in, also known as Chilcotin, is a northern Athabaskan language spoken by the people of the Chilco River (Tsilhqox) in Interior British Columbia. Until now, the literature on Tsilhqut'in contained very little description of the language. With forty-seven consonants and six vowels plus tone, the phonological system is notoriously complex. This book is the first comprehensive grammar of Tsilhqut'in. It covers all aspects of linguistic structure - phonology, morphology, and syntax - including negation and questions. Also included are three annotated texts. The product of decades of work by linguist Eung-Do Cook, this book makes an important contribution to the ongoing documentation of Athabaskan languages.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
1100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-2516-0 (9780774825160)
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Eung-Do Cook is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Calgary.
Content
Abbreviations and Symbols
Introduction
1 Sound System and Orthography
2 Words and Their Categories
3 Organization of the Verb
4 Theme Categories and Other Verb Classes
5 Simple Sentences
6 Complex Sentences
7 Movement and Other Syntactic Rules
8 Negation
9 Questions
10 Reference to Third Person and Morphosyntactic Problems
Appendix: Three Annotated Texts
References Cited
Introduction
1 Sound System and Orthography
2 Words and Their Categories
3 Organization of the Verb
4 Theme Categories and Other Verb Classes
5 Simple Sentences
6 Complex Sentences
7 Movement and Other Syntactic Rules
8 Negation
9 Questions
10 Reference to Third Person and Morphosyntactic Problems
Appendix: Three Annotated Texts
References Cited