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245 0 2 _aA grammar of Pite Saami
_cJoshua Wilbur
264 2 _bOpen Textbook Library
264 1 _bLanguage Science Press
300 _a1 online resource
490 0 _aOpen textbook library.
505 0 _aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prosody -- Chapter 3: Segmental phonology -- Chapter 4: Morphological patterns and word classes -- Chapter 5: Nominals I: Nouns -- Chapter 6: Nominals II: Pronouns -- Chapter 7: Adjectivals -- Chapter 8: Verbs -- Chapter 9: Other word classes -- Chapter 10: Derivational morphology -- Chapter 11: Phrase types
520 0 _aPite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language written in English. While focusing on the morphophonology of the main word classes nouns, adjectives and verbs, it also deals with other linguistic structures such as prosody, phonology, phrase types and clauses. Furthermore, it provides an introduction to the language and its speakers, and an outline of a preliminary Pite Saami orthography. An extensive annotated spoken-language corpus collected over the course of five years forms the empirical foundation for this description, and each example includes a specific reference to the corpus in order to facilitate verification of claims made on the data. Descriptions are presented for a general linguistics audience and without attempting to support a specific theoretical approach, but this book should be equally useful for scholars of Uralic linguistics, typologists, and even learners of Pite Saami.
542 1 _fAttribution
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_vTextbooks
700 1 _aWilbur, Joshua
_eauthor
710 2 _aOpen Textbook Library
_edistributor
856 4 0 _uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/663
_zAccess online version
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