LINGUIST List 17.2869

Tue Oct 03 2006

Books: Language Description/Typology: Guile

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 41: Guile
Message 1: LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 41: Guile
Date: 26-Sep-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 41: Guile


Title: LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 41 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom.at

Author: Timothy Guile Paperback: ISBN: 3895862746 Pages: 500 Price: U.K. £ 90.80
Abstract:

"Anthology of Menominee Sayings" is the result of seven years of field work(conducted during the 1980's) with about half a dozen speakers of one ofWisconsin's indigenous Algonquian languages. The anthology, consisting ofsome 450 short pieces of Menominee oral tradition, contains weather rules,conventions and taboos surrounding hunting and fishing, wisdom on theconduct of life, and omens predicting good or ill. The texts, therefore,tell of the community's interest in the contour of life from its inceptionto its preservation and eventual demise. Each text is accompanied by anEnglish translation and, where necessary, explanatory linguistic andcultural notes.

The notes take Bloomfield's grammatical description and lexicon ofMenominee as a point of comparison, and indicate phonetic, phonological,morphological, syntactic and semantic departures from the state of thelanguage as described by him. The text is useful to students of culture,folklore, Native American studies, as well as historical and descriptivelinguistics.The volume concludes with a short descriptive grammar focusing onphonology, morphology and syntax.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description                             Typology
Subject Language(s): Menominee (mez)
Written In: English (eng )

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