Overview

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences. Based on fieldwork conducted on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, this book, which seeks to address descriptive and theoretical issues involving complex sentences, has three major aims: i) to present a morpho-syntactic, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic description of complex sentences in Cheyenne; ii) to investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic dimensions of complex sentences; and iii) to contribute to the research, preservation, and revitalization of this ancestral language spoken in the United States of America. This book will be informative for scholars interested in language typology, comparative linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and language documentation, as well as those interested in Cheyenne learning and teaching.

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Author:   Avelino Corral Esteban
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9781032319971

ISBN 10:   1032319976
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   31 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Cheyenne flag Preface List of tables List of figures List of abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 Background information 1.2 Overview of Cheyenne 1.2.1 Sociolinguistic information 1.2.2 Genealogical position 1.2.3 Basic points on the phonology of Cheyenne 1.2.4 Spelling system 1.3 Basic morphosyntactic properties of Cheyenne 1.3.1 Polsynthetic morphology 1.3.2 Morphosyntactic alignment 1.3.3 Information structure 1.3.4 The verbal complex 1.3.5 Grammatical categories 1.3.6 Lexical categories 1.3.7. Morphosyntactic coding of arguments Notes 2 RRG and Cheyenne simple sentences 2.1 The syntactic representation of a sentence 2.2 The semantic representation of a sentence 2.3 Information structure 2.4 The linking algorithm Notes 3 Clause linkage theory 3.1 Theoretical approaches to the study of complex sentences 3.2 The RRG approach to the study of the structure of complex sentences Notes 4 Juncture-nexus combinations 4.1 Nuclear junctures 4.2 Core junctures 4.3 Clausal junctures 4.4 Sentential junctures Notes 5 Semantic relations between units 5.1 Single actions 5.1.1 Causative [1] 5.1.2 Modifying sub-actions 5.1.3 Phase 5.2 Multiple actions 5.2.1 Simultaneous 5.2.2 Sequential 5.2.3 Causative [2] 5.3 Endeavour 5.3.1 Attempt 5.3.2 Success 5.3.3 Failure 5.4 Intentions 5.4.1 Refusal 5.4.2 Psych-action 5.4.3 Purposive 5.5 Bringing about 5.5.1 Causative [3] 5.5.2 Jussive 5.5.3 Permissive 5.5.4 Injunctive 5.6 Perception 5.6.1 Direct perception 5.6.2 Indirect perception 5.7 Intentionality 5.7.1 Propositional attitude 5.7.2 Cognition 5.7.3 Emotion 5.8 Speech 5.8.1 Indirect discourse 5.8.2 Direct discourse 5.9 Locational 5.9.1 Space 5.9.2 Time 5.10 Circumstances 5.10.1 Reason 5.10.2 Conditional 5.10.3 Concessive 5.11 Temporality 5.11.1 Temporal / Simultaneous actions 5.11.2 Temporal / Sequential actions 5.11.3 Situation-situation / temporally unordered SoAs 5.12 Complex RPs Notes 6 Relationship between clause linkage types and semantic relations 6.1 Intereclausal relations hierarchy 6.2 Iconic correlation between syntactic and semantic representations Notes 7 The role of discourse-pragmatics in complex sentences 7.1 Information structure in complex sentences 7.2 Obviation in Cheyenne narration Notes 8 Concluding remarks Glossary of RRG terms References Appendix Index

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Dr. Avelino Corral Esteban has produced an impressive and insightful analysis of complex sentences in Cheyenne, a Native American language of the Algonquian family. It presents some unique challenges for any theoretical approach, and Dr. Corral Esteban employs a functional-typological theory, Role and Reference Grammar, which has a sophisticated theory of clause linkage. The result is a very revealing exploration of Cheyenne complex sentences. It is an important contribution to the study of Algonquian languages, on the one hand, and to functional linguistics and language typology, on the other. Prof (emeritus) Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf

Author Information

Avelino Corral Esteban works as a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, where he teaches courses on syntax, historical linguistics, and information structure. His main areas of research cover the interaction between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics across languages, with a focus on Native American, Romance, Germanic, and Celtic languages. He has collaborated in research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, and the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival in the USA, and he co-leads the Honóxease Project, the aim of which is to foster the preservation and revitalization of the Cheyenne language. He also received the Phillips Fund grant for Native American Research and the Benjamin Franklin grant from the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of seven book chapters, published by Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, John Benjamins, Peter Lang, and Routledge, and more than 20 research articles, which have appeared in major linguistics journals (Acta Linguistica Academica, Journal of Language Contact, Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication, RESLA, WORD, and Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie).

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