A Grammar of ComancheThis text briefly discusses those aspects of the Comanche, it will be of greatest interest to a reader who has little or no background in the Numic languages. |
Contents
Phonology | 9 |
Nouns | 47 |
Pronouns | 98 |
Verbs | 113 |
Noun Modifiers | 153 |
Adverbs and Modal Particles | 167 |
Simple Sentences | 192 |
Complex Sentences | 223 |
Text Analysis | 254 |
References | 260 |
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Common terms and phrases
absolutive suffix adverbial affix affricate Armagost aspect suffix ASPR Canonge Canonge's Comanche compounds consonant Coyote devoicing discussed dual ehka element examples fortis geminated glottal go-CMPL:ASP going h/H/pinni hãã haHka hakani horse I-CNTR iHka inflected inni instrumental prefixes intransitive intransitive verbs kahni kikati kiki know-GEN:ASP kwasu language LENIS lexical items locative postpositions main verb meaning Miller in press modifiers morpheme MORPHEME BOUNDARY Muupits nakwi name-TOP narrative nasal nii-se nise nominalizing suffix noun Numic Numic languages occurs oHka particle PASP phonetic pimmi pinni PL SUBJ plural possessive postposition pound meat preaspirating predicative suffix prefinal aspect pronouns reduplicated relative clause SG OBJ SG SUBJ Shoshone simi singular siti speaker spirant stop stress SUBJ)-CMPL:ASP subordinate clause suhka suppletive suri surise suti switch reference syllable tanni that-OBJ that-one-CNTR there-at tianoo tiasi tsaa uHka nii urii utii Uto-Aztecan Uto-Aztecan languages verb stem voiceless vowel wihnu
References to this book
Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald No preview available - 2003 |