{"product_id":"9780990334439","title":"A Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware (Lenape)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Grammar of the Southern Unami Dialect of the Delaware Language (Lenape): \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis grammar of the Southern Unami language describes the phonology, the inflectional and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ederivational morphology, and some aspects of sentence and discourse structure. It does not \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einclude a formal treatment of syntax. The treatment of these topics in Delaware Verbal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorphology (Goddard 1979) has been entirely recast, and there are now sections on additional \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etopics that substantially fill out the description of this often complex and idiosyncratic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlgonquian language. The facts are presented discursively in small modules with examples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe phonemic transcription has been improved by writing the phonemic contrast between \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe long and short fricatives between vowels and after \/n\/, and by greater consistency in writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe marginally distinctive contrast between \/u\/ and the unrounded mid-central vowel, especially \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebefore \/w\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe extensive phonological alternations are illustrated with examples of morphological \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtexts in which they characteristically appear. Static words, syllables, and segments (which \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave short phonemes inconsistent with the more usual phonological patterns) are treated. The \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einflection of nouns, pronouns, and verbs is described and illustrated with extensive paradigms, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand particles, including enclitics, are treated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe processes of stem derivation are outlined for primary stems and for secondary stems \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(those derived from another stem). The types of reduplication are described. Several kinds of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecompounds are distinguished and illustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe basic facts of sentence structure are presented, including the function of absolute and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eobjective transitive verbs (to mark distinctions of definiteness) and the use of oblique \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomplements and adjuncts. Other features discussed include verbless sentences, participles \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(relative clauses), focus-fronting, discontinuous constituents, and gapping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthern Unami is the heritage language of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkla.) and the Delaware Nation of Western Oklahoma (Anadarko).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mundart Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48505578127601,"sku":"9780990334439","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780990334439_p0.jpg?v=1786052087","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780990334439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}