Full Description
Thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language. But the numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in some danger. To help preserve the language while it is still in daily use, Donald G. Frantz and Norma Jean Russell collaborated on the Blackfoot Dictionary, published in 1989 to widespread acclaim and later revised in 1995. Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to the dictionary, has now also been updated with a second edition. The changes made to each chapter reflect new approaches refined through years of teaching experience. New chapters on 'Numbers and Enumeration' and 'Translating from English to Blackfoot' have been added, as well as new exercises and two new appendixes describing the phonetics of Blackfoot and the design of the alphabet. This second edition of Blackfoot Grammar will be a welcome update not only for those who wish to learn the language, but for all those with an interest in Native Studies and North American linguistics.
Contents
Contents AcknowledgementsviiPrefaceixCHAPTER ONE The Blackfoot Alphabet1CHAPTER TWO Some Basics of Blackfoot Grammar7CHAPTER THREE Intransitive Verbs15CHAPTER FOUR More on Intransitive Verbs20CHAPTER FIVE Some Phonological Rules25CHAPTER SIX Tense and Aspect30CHAPTER SEVEN Four Verb Stem Types39CHAPTER EIGHT Transitive Inanimate Verbs43CHAPTER NINE Attached Pronouns47CHAPTER TEN Transitive Animate Part 1: Direct51CHAPTER ELEVEN Transitive Animate Part 2: Inverse55CHAPTER TWELVE Transitive Animate Part 359CHAPTER THIRTEEN Demonstratives63CHAPTER FOURTEEN Possessives69CHAPTER FIFTEEN Allomorphy 78CHAPTER SIXTEEN Complex Verb Stems, Part 184CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Complex Verb Stems, Part 2: Finals99CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Some Concrete Finals102CHAPTER NINETEEN Other Verb Paradigms110CHAPTER TWENTY Nominalizations116CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Questions132CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Complement Clause Types140REFERENCES145APPENDIX A Verb Paradigms147APPENDIX B Phonological Rules152Index157
