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Author:   Olga Lovick
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
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9781496213150

ISBN 10:   1496213157
Pages:   702
Publication Date:   01 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of abbreviations Acknowledgments Preface 1 About this grammar 2 The Upper Tanana language: background 3 Dialects 4 Some cultural background I Phonology 5 Consonants 6 Vowels 7 Tone 8 A historical perspective on the sound system 9 Stem-initial fricative lenition 10 Syllable structure 11 Light and heavy stems 12 The practical orthography II Lexical categories 13 Nouns 14 Verbs 15 Free postpositions 16 Adverbs 17 Directionals 18 Adjectives and modifiers 19 Pronouns 20 Numerals 21 Other minor word categories III Morphology 22 Possessor inflection 23 Inflection of postpositions 24 Verbal morphology: an overview 25 Verb theme categories 26 Verb stem 27 Voice/valence markers 28 Subject marking 29 Conjugation and mode prefixes 30 Qualifiers 31 Pronominal prefixes 32 Distributive 33 Incorporated roots 34 Iterative 35 Adverbial-derivational prefixes 36 Bound (thematic) postpositions 37 Verbal suffixes 38 Preview 39 Bibliography

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A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 moves an already high bar for work on Dene languages even higher with its in-depth coverage of the standard topics enhanced by sections on the semantics of various morphemes, interjections, and nonverbal predicates. It is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of this language. -Keren Rice, former president of both the Canadian Linguistic Association and the Linguistic Society of America -- Keren Rice

A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 moves an already high bar for work on Dene languages even higher with its in-depth coverage of the standard topics enhanced by sections onen the semantics of various morphemes, interjections, and nonverbal predicates. It is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of this language. -Keren Rice, former president of both the Canadian Linguistic Association and the Linguistic Society of America -- Keren Rice

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Olga Lovick is a professor of linguistics and department head at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the editor of a collection of stories of the Tetlin people of Alaska.    

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