A Grammar of Patwin brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published description of the Patwin language.
A Grammar of Patwin brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published description of the Patwin language.
¿Lewis C. Lawyer is an independent scholar and is the reference systems manager at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. For more information about the author visit calangdoc.com.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Alphabetical List of Morphemes 1. Background 1.1. The Patwin Language 1.2. Materials 1.3. Grammaticography 1.4. Orthography and Formatting 2. Phonemics and Phonetics 2.1. Phoneme Inventory 2.2. Minimal Pairs 2.3. Detailed Phonetic and Phonemic Descriptions 2.4. Stress and Intonation 3. Phonology 3.1. Phonotactics 3.2. The Syllable 3.3. Words and Stems 3.4. Stress Assignment and Syllable Weights 3.5. Segmental Phenomena 3.6. Reduplication 3.7. Loanwords 4. Nominals and Nominal Morphology 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Nouns 4.3. Kinship Terms 4.4. Nominalized Verbs 4.5. Number Marking 4.6. Case Marking 4.7. Absolutive Suffix 4.8. Vocatives 4.9. Order of Morphemes 4.10. Verbalization 4.11. Compound Constructions 5. Pronouns 5.1. Tables of Forms 5.2. Roots 5.3. Suffixes 5.4. Verbalization 5.5. In-Law Address Forms 5.6. Doubled Pronouns 6. Nominal Modifiers and the Noun Phrase 6.1. Pronouns as Modifiers 6.2. Adjectives 6.3. Numerals 6.4. Quantifiers 6.5. Relative Clauses 6.6. Nominal Coordination 6.7. Headless and Discontinuous Noun Phrases 7. Directionals and Cardinals 7.1. Directionals 7.2. Cardinals 8. The Verb and Verbal Morphology 8.1. The Verb Stem 8.2. Verbal Suffixes 8.3. Event and Participant Plurality 8.4. Nominalization 8.5. Verb Compounding 8.6. Citation Forms 9. The Clause 9.1. Auxiliary Verbs 9.2. Particles 9.3. Subordinate Clauses 9.4. Negation 9.5. Comparative Constructions 9.6. Clause Coordination with Connector /=¿u/ ‘CONN’ Appendix: Attested Pronouns by Dialect A.1. Tables of Attested Pronouns by Dialect A.2. Discussion of Pronoun Data Notes References
