Ute Reference Grammar

Name: Ute Reference Grammar
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Ute Reference Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Preface
Foreword
Namu-máy-vaa-tu
First word
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. Ute, Numic and Uto-Aztecan
1.2. Earlier sources
1.3. What is grammar?
1.4. What is a reference grammar?
1.4.1 Mental vs. descriptive grammar
1.4.2 Descriptive vs. pedagogic grammar
1.4.3 Synchronic vs. diachronic grammar
1.4.4 Literacy and spoken language
1.5. The data
1.6. Intended audiences and uses
1.7. Organization of the book
1.8. Abbreviations of grammatical terms
Chapter 2. Sound system and orthography
2.1. Preliminaries
2.2. Vowels
2.2.1 Vowels and their pronunciation
2.2.2 Short vs. long vowels
2.2.3 Stressed vs. unstressed vowels
2.2.4 Silent vowels
2.3. Consonants and their pronunciation
2.4. Hyphenation conventions
2.5. Capitalization conventions
Chapter 3. Word classes and word structure
3.1. Preliminaries
3.2. Lexical word classes
3.2.1 Membership criteria
3.2.2 Nouns
3.2.2.1 Semantic properties
3.2.2.2 Syntactic properties
3.2.2.3 Morphological properties
3.2.2.3.1 Noun suffixes and noun classes
3.2.2.3.2 Plural formation
3.2.2.3.3 Grammatical ('case') roles
3.2.2.3.4 Possessor suffix pronouns
3.2.2.3.5 Noun compounds
3.2.3 Adjectives
3.2.3.1 Semantic characteristics
3.2.3.2 Syntactic characteristic
3.2.3.3 Morphological characteristics
3.2.4 Numerals and ordinals
3.2.5 Quantifiers
3.2.6 Verbs
3.2.6.1 Plural subject agreement
3.2.6.2 Causative
3.2.6.3 Benefactive
3.2.6.4 Passive
3.2.6.5 Tense-aspect-modality
3.2.6.6 Negation
3.2.6.7 Suffix pronouns
3.2.6.8 First-syllable stem reduplication
3.2.6.9 Incorporated stems
3.2.7 Adverbs
3.2.7.1 Time adverbs
3.2.7.2 Manner adverbs
3.2.7.3 Epistemic adverbs
3.2.8 Demonstratives, articles and pronouns
3.2.8.1 Demonstratives
3.2.8.2 Definite articles
3.2.8.3 Personal pronouns
3.2.9 Interjections
Chapter 4. Simple clauses
4.1. Syntactic description
4.1.1 Theme, variations and clause-types
4.1.2 States, events, and actions
4.1.3 Participant roles
4.1.4 Grammatical relations
4.1.5 Constituency and hierarchic structure
4.1.6 Word order
4.2. Dummy-subject verbs
4.3. Copular verbs and non-verbal predicates
4.4. Simple intransitive verbs
4.5. Intransitive clauses with an indirect object
4.5.1 Syntactic characterization
4.5.2 Locative indirect objects
4.5.3 Locative post-positions
4.5.4 Dynamic locative post-positions
4.5.5 Non-locative indirect objects
4.6. Transitive verbs
4.6.1 Transitivity
4.6.2 Simple transitive verbs
4.7. Bi-transitive verbs
4.7.1 Verbs with a locative indirect object
4.7.2 Verbs with a dative indirect object
4.7.3 Verbs with an associative indirect object
4.7.4 Verbs with the instrumental-locative variation
4.8. Verbs with verbal complements
4.8.1 Modal-aspectual verbs
4.8.2 Manipulation verbs
4.8.3 Perception-cognition-utterance verbs
4.9. Optional participant roles
4.9.1 Benefactive
4.9.2 Associative
4.9.3 Instrumental
4.9.4 Manner
4.9.5 Optional locatives
Chapter 5. The diachrony of Ute case-marking
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Subject, object and genitive
5.2.1 Current state: Recapitulation
5.2.2 Traces of the oblique suffix -y/-i
5.2.2.1 Traces on object or genitive nouns
5.2.2.2 Traces on Demonstratives and pronouns
5.2.2.3 Traces in nominalized clauses
5.2.2.4 The epenthetic suffix -y
5.2.3 The oblique suffix -a
5.2.3.1 The suffix -a as a genitive marker
5.2.3.2 The suffix -a as an object marker
5.2.4 The object suffix -ku
5.2.5 Interim summary
5.2.6 Object and genitive: The hidden footprints of nominalization
5.2.6.1 Preliminaries
5.2.7 The diachrony of Ute object marking: Reconstruction
5.2.7.1 The suffixes -a and -y
5.2.7.2 The demise of the suffix -y
5.2.7.3 The object suffix -ku
5.3. Post-positions and indirect objects
5.3.1 Introduction
5.3.2 Large-size locative post-positions
5.3.2.1 Noun-derived post-positions
5.3.2.2 Verb-derived post-positions
5.3.2.3 Older monosyllabic de-verbal post-positions
5.3.2.4 The oldest locative post-positions -na, -mi and -ma
5.4. Discussion
Chapter 6. Tense, aspect, modality and negation
6.1. Introduction
6.1.1 Perspective
6.1.2 Tense
6.1.3 Aspect
6.1.4 Modality
6.2. The immediate aspect
6.3. The anterior aspect
6.4. The remote past
6.5. Imperfective remote-past
6.6. The finite habitual aspect
6.7. The nominal habitual aspect
6.8. The distributive aspect
6.9. Future and irrealis
6.9.1 Simple future
6.9.2 Present subjunctive
6.9.3 Habitual subjunctive
6.9.4 Future-in-past
6.9.5 The intentional mode
6.9.6 The exhortative mode
6.9.7 The strong-obligation mode
6.9.8 The other-directed hope-wish mode
6.9.9 The counter-fact hope-wish mode
6.9.10 Hypothetical counter-fact modes
6.10. Discourse-sensitive aspectual markers
6.10.1 The digression aspect
6.10.2 The closure aspect
6.11. Residual cases
6.11.1 The inceptive aspect
6.11.2 The completive aspect
6.11.3 The verbal suffix -kwa
6.11.4 Other old co-lexicalized suffixes
Chapter 7. Noun phrases-I
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Referential coherence in discourse
7.3. Indefinite referents: First introduction
7.3.1 Definiteness and access to knowledge
7.3.2 Indefinite nominals
7.3.3 Non-referring and generic nominals
7.4. Demonstratives and definite articles
7.4.1 Demonstrative modifiers
7.4.2 Definite articles
7.4.3 Demonstratives as pronouns
7.5. Personal pronouns
7.6. Clitic anaphoric pronouns and zero anaphora
7.6.1 Preliminaries
7.6.2 Zero anaphora: The default case for referential continuity
7.6.3 Subject vs. object clitics: In search of a general principle
7.6.4 Pronominal agreement
7.6.5 Cliticization locus: Second-position clitics?
7.7. Flexible word-order and referential coherence
7.8. Final reflections
Chapter 8. Noun phrases-II
8.1. Orientation
8.2. Modifying adjectives
8.2.1 Restrictive vs. non-restrictive modification
8.2.2 Adjectives used as pronouns
8.2.3 Morphological note
8.3. Numerals, ordinals and quantifiers
8.3.1 Numerals
8.3.2 Ordinals
8.3.3 Quantifiers
8.3.4 Partitive constructions
8.4. Possessive modifiers
8.5. Noun compounds
8.6. Nominalized clauses as noun phrases
8.6.1 Preliminaries: Finiteness and nominalization
8.6.2 Nominalized clauses in Ute
8.7. Noun-phrase conjunction
8.8. Diachronic notes
Chapter 9. Verbal complements
9.1. Orientation
9.2. Modal-aspectual verbs
9.3. Manipulation verbs
9.3.1 Non-implicative manipulation verbs
9.3.2 Implicative verbs and the causative construction
9.3.2.1 Introduction
9.3.2.2 Verb classes and case-marking
9.3.2.3 Syntactic constraints on causativization
9.3.2.4 Semantic constraints on causativization
9.4. Perception-cognition-utterance verbs
9.4.1 Indicative complements
9.4.2 Conditional complements
9.4.3 WH-question complements
9.4.4 Direct-quote complements
9.5. Clausal subjects
9.5.1 Preamble
9.5.2 Nominalized verb phrases as subjects
9.5.3 Full-size clausal subjects
Chapter 10. De-Transitive Voice
10.1. Voice and transitivity
10.1.1 Overview
10.1.2 Semantic dimensions of voice
10.1.3 Pragmatic dimensions of voice
10.1.4 Syntactic dimensions of voice
10.2. Reflexive clauses
10.2.1 The simple reflexive
10.2.1.1 Reflexives in main clauses
10.2.1.2 Reflexives in complement clauses
10.2.2 The possessive reflexive
10.3. Reciprocal clauses
10.4. Middle-voice
10.5. The impersonal passive
10.5.1 Structural dimensions
10.5.2 Usage context of the passive in natural text
10.5.3 The passive as middle-voice
10.6. The antipassive
10.7. The inverse voice
Chapter 11. The diachrony of Ute passives
11.1. Orientation
11.2. The diachrony of the Ute -ta passive
11.3. The other passive
11.4. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Relative clauses
12.1. Orientation
12.2. Functional dimensions
12.2.1 Definite head nouns: Anaphoric grounding
12.2.2 Referring indefinite head nouns: Cataphoric grounding
12.2.3 Non-referring head nouns: Irrealis and the problem of strict co-reference
12.3. Structural dimensions
12.4. Subject relative clauses
12.5. Object relative clauses
12.6. Indirect-object relative clauses
12.7. Some text-derived examples
12.8. Headless relative clauses
12.9. Non-restrictive relative clauses
Chapter 13. Contrastive focus and emphasis
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Contrastive focus constructions
13.2.1 Cleft
13.2.2 Pseudo-cleft
13.3. Emphatic re-focusing morphemes
13.3.1 The suffix -nukwa
13.3.2 The topicalizing suffix -ga
13.3.3 The emphatic suffix -ku/-gu
Chapter 14. Non-declarative speech acts
14.1. Introduction
14.1.1 Orientation
14.1.2 Speech-acts
14.2. Manipulative speech-acts
14.2.1 Imperatives
14.2.2 Negative imperative
14.2.3 Exhortatives
14.2.4 The obligative mode
14.2.5 The strong obligative mode
14.2.6 The subjunctive of hope or wish
14.2.7 Counter-fact hypothetical subjunctive
14.2.8 The counter-fact hypothetical mode
14.3. Interrogatives
14.3.1 Yes/no questions
14.3.1.1 Preliminaries
14.3.1.2 Affirmative yes/no questions
14.3.1.3 Negative yes/no questions
14.3.1.4 The use of negative yes/no questions as polite requests
14.3.2 Constituent (WH-) question
14.3.2.1 Preliminaries
14.3.2.2 Subject WH-questions: Referring vs. non-referring
14.3.2.3 Predicate questions
14.3.2.4 Object WH-questions and word-order
14.3.2.5 Object-of-possession WH-questions
14.3.2.6 Indirect-object and adverbial WH-questions
14.3.2.7 Possessor WH-questions
14.3.2.8 Quantity questions
14.3.3 Cleft and pseudo-cleft WH-questions
14.3.4 WH-questions and modal uncertainty
14.3.5 A variant WH-question pattern
Chapter 15. Possession
15.1. Orientation
15.2. Inalienable possession
15.3. Negative inalienable possession
15.4. Alienable possession
15.5. Negative alienable possession
15.6. Existential clauses
15.7. Negative existential clauses
Chapter 16. Comparative constructions
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Comparison of adjectival quality
16.3. Comparison of manner or extent of verbs
16.4. Comparison of quantity of objects
16.5. Comparison of quantity of subjects
16.6. Downward comparison (less)
16.6.1 Adjectives
16.6.2 Verbs and adverbs
16.6.3 Number or quantity of objects
16.7. Superlatives
Chapter 17. Adverbial clauses
17.1. Preliminaries
17.2. Temporal adverbial clauses
17.3. Relative order of main vs. adverbial clause
17.4. Conditional adverbial clauses
17.4.1 Irrealis conditionals
17.4.2 Counter-fact ('hypothetical') conditionals
17.5. Concessive clauses
17.6. Cause or reason clauses
17.7. Purpose clauses
17.7.1 Equi-subject purpose clauses
17.7.2 Switch-subject purpose clauses
17.8. Participial clauses
17.8.1 Ku-marked participial clauses
17.8.2 Ga-marked participial clauses
17.9. Diachronic notes
17.9.1 The adverbial subordinator -ku
17.9.2 The participial subordinator -ga
Appendix: The use of -ga-marked participial clauses in oral texts
Chapter 18. Clause chaining and discourse coherence
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Chain-medial contexts: Maximal continuity, minimal marking
18.3. Chain-initial contexts: Minimal continuity, maximal marking
18.4. Flexible word-order and discourse coherence
18.5. Notes on the diachrony of inter-clausal connectives
18.5.1 The compositional assembly of inter-clausal connectives
18.5.2 The old conjunctive suffix -su-
Chapter 19. Lexical derivation patterns
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Noun-producing derivations
19.2.1 Noun-to-noun derivations
19.2.1.1 The diminutive derivations with -pu/-vu
19.2.1.2 The diminutive derivation with -chi
19.2.1.3 The diminutive derivation with -taa/-raa
19.2.1.4 The 'old' 'defunct' 'departed' derivation with -ga-pu
19.2.1.5 The possessor derivation with -ga 'have'
19.2.1.6 Noun compounding
19.2.2 Verb-to-noun derivations (nominalizations)
19.2.2.1 The subject/agent nominalization with -mi-tu
19.2.2.2 The old subject/agent nominalization with -chi
19.2.2.3 The old object nominalization with -pu
19.2.2.4 The object nominalization with -ka-pu
19.2.2.5 The object nominalization with -ka-tu
19.2.2.6 The instrument nominalization with -'na-pu
19.2.2.7 The action nominalization with -pu/-vu
19.2.2.8 The action nominalization with -pi
19.2.2.9 The action nominalization with -ta
19.3. Verb-producing derivations
19.3.1 Verb-to-verb derivations
19.3.1.1 The intensive derivation with -'ni
19.3.1.2 The distributive derivation
19.3.1.3 The causative derivation with -ti-
19.3.1.4 The inchoative derivation with -wi -
19.3.2 Noun/adjective-to-verb derivations
19.3.2.1 The causative derivation with -may-
19.3.2.2 The causative derivation with -ri -
19.3.2.3 The inchoative derivation with -ri -
19.3.2.4 The inchoative derivation with -'ini-/-mani -
19.3.3 Incorporation as verbal derivation
19.4. Adjective-producing derivations
19.4.1 Preliminaries
19.4.2 The potential derivation with -ta-ru
19.4.3 The derivation with -ni
19.5. Adverb producing derivation
Chapter 20. Interjections
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