Full Description
Although thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language, their numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in danger.
Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes Third Edition, provides description and analyses of the major features of Blackfoot grammar and language structures. The changes throughout this third edition reflect approaches refined through years of teaching experience. A new appendix, featuring a lengthy Blackfoot text with interlinear English translation has been added, as well as numerous corrections and additions to every chapter. This third edition of Blackfoot Grammar will be a welcome resource 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
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Third Edition
Chapter 1 The Blackfoot Alphabet
Chapter 2 Some Basics of Noun Inflection
Chapter 3 Intransitive Verbs
Chapter 4 More on Intransitive Verbs
Chapter 5 Some Phonological Rules
Chapter 6 Tense and Aspect
Chapter 7 Four Verb Stem Types
Chapter 8 Transitive Inanimate Verbs
Chapter 9 Attached Pronouns
Chapter 10 Transitive Animate, Part 1: Direct
Chapter 11 Transitive Animate, Part 2: Inverse
Chapter 12 Transitive Animate, Part 3
Chapter 13 Demonstratives
Chapter 14 Possessives
Chapter 15 Allomorphy
Chapter 16 Complex Verb Stems, Part 1
Chapter 17 Complex Verb Stems, Part 2: Finals
Chapter 18 Some Concrete Finals
Chapter 19 Other Verb Paradigms
Chapter 20 Nominalizations
Chapter 21 Questions
Chapter 22 Complement Clause Types
Chapter 23 Translating from English to Blackfoot
Chapter 24 Numbers and Enumeration
Appendix A Verb Paradigms
Appendix B Phonological Rules
Appendix C The Sounds of Blackfoot
Appendix D Design of the Blackfoot Alphabet
Appendix E Ikasskini: Analyzed Blackfoot Text
References
Index
