Cheyenne

Reviews / Votes

"Dr. Avelino Corral Esteban has produced an impressive and insightful analysis of complex sentences in Cheyenne, a Native American language of the Algonquian family. It presents some unique challenges for any theoretical approach, and Dr. Corral Esteban employs a functional-typological theory, Role and Reference Grammar, which has a sophisticated theory of clause linkage. The result is a very revealing exploration of Cheyenne complex sentences. It is an important contribution to the study of Algonquian languages, on the one hand, and to functional linguistics and language typology, on the other."

Prof (emeritus) Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf

"This outstanding contribution of Prof. Avelino Corral to a better understanding of the grammar of Cheyenne, a critically endangered Algonquian language spoken in Montana and Oklahoma, is a unique and insightful exploration of the complex sentences of this Algonquian language according to the premises of Role and Reference Grammar. To this purpose he also provides an accurate and unmatched research on the iconic relationship between the syntactic and semantic dimensions of these sentences with the aim of improving the preservation and revitalization of this ancestral language."

Prof. Ricardo Mairal Uson, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)

"Dr Avelino Corral Esteban's monograph is a timely and welcome investigation of Cheyenne, a severely endangered Plains Algonquian language spoken in Montana and Oklahoma (USA). Offering empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analyses of predicate and clause linkage, and other aspects of the polysynthetic head-marking grammar of Cheyenne, the volume testifies to the critical importance of lesser studied languages for the advancement of knowledge in linguistic theory. It will be of interest to researchers in the discourse-semantics-syntax interface, field linguists, and the Tsehesenestsest?tse speakers themselves."

Professor Delia Bentley, The University of Manchester

"Offering an enlightening examination of the Cheyenne language, this book comes to satisfy the dire need for studies which describe seriously endangered languages. The volume provides an analysis of complex sentences in Cheyenne from the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), one of the most fascinating grammatical theories which aims at explaining the structure of languages from a non-Anglocentric standpoint. By means of a wealth of data and analyses, ranging from morphology and syntax to semantics and pragmatics, Dr. Corral manages to cover the linguistic intricacies of these structures. This book is an indispensable reference for typological linguists and RRG practitioners."

Prof. Francisco Jose Cortes Rodriguez, Universidad de La Laguna