Yuki Grammar: With Sketches of Huchnom and Coast YukiThe Yuki language, including Huchnom and Coast Yuki, was spoken in Mendocino County until relatively recently (the last speaker died in 1983). This grammar is based primarily on spoken narratives recorded by Alfred Kroeber between 1901-1911. While Yuki was extensively documented over the course of the twentieth century, there is relatively little in the way of actual published works on the language. Balodis discusses the language within the historical and cultural context of the people who spoke it. |
Contents
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2 PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY | 39 |
3 MORPHOPHONEMIC ALTERNATIONS | 75 |
4 WORD CLASSES | 85 |
5 NOUNS | 86 |
6 PRONOUNS | 165 |
7 VERBS | 219 |
8 ADJECTIVES | 312 |
15 CLAUSE STRUCTURE | 393 |
Natural and Manmade Landmarks of the N Yukian Speech Area | 446 |
Map of Northern Yukian Villages | 448 |
Map of Yuki Tribal Subdivisions and Surrounding Languages | 452 |
Map of the Language Families of California | 454 |
Kroebers History of the Recording of Yuki | 456 |
Terms Describing the Coast Yuki Natural World | 460 |
Northern Yukian Population Data | 462 |
9 NUMERALS | 332 |
10 QUANTIFIERS | 340 |
11 ADVERBS | 343 |
12 LOCATIVE TERMS | 348 |
13 CONNECTIVES AND OTHER MINOR WORDS | 360 |
14 SWITCHREFERENCE AND CONNECTIVE ENCLITICS | 367 |
Map of Round Valley Indian Reservation in the 1920s | 463 |
Photograph of Ralph Moore | 464 |
Yuki Texts | 465 |
Bibliography | 648 |
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Common terms and phrases
1SG.AGT 1SG.PAT adjectives all-ANIM Alternate form given argument atat atat=q Coast Yuki consonant Coyote=PAT dance dative dative pronoun dependent clause DST-DSTR-ANIM elicited examples enclitic ey imeymil glottal stop glottalized glottalized consonant Harrington hdiye hil-i hilkšilo hqye HSY1 say–FIN Huchnom Huchnom and Coast imeymil hulk'6'i imi=mil hulk'o’i inessive Jackrabbit k'ol kimas kip=qt kipat kita Kroeber Lamb locative terms long.time marked meaning meat/deer mediopassive morpheme morphology musp namliki NEW=HSY1 NEW=then NEW=then-HSY1 NEW=thereupon=HSY1 Northern Yukian occur people=PAT person singular phonetic plural prefixes Ralph Moore referring relative clause RM Sá’ey RM se'éy Round Valley SAME=HSY1 SAME=then-HSY1 Sawyer and Schlichter say–FIN Coyote Schlichter 1984 Se’ey serial verb constructions shown si'éy Si=’i hq'aye si=kit sika'éy Siniard sister's Śiwkitin song/sing Sq'éy stress suffix syllable Taykómol texts third person tima translated verb root vowel Wailaki words World Yuki language Yuki speaker