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Proto Utian grammar and dictionary : with notes on Yokuts
This book is the result of over 50 years of research, and it represents an intellectual journey. It is maximally accessible by tabulating the data and inserting frequent cross-references. Dictionary entries are in the alphabetical order of the deepest reconstruction in the set, and there is an English-Utian section at the end of the volume. Yokuts (or Proto Yokuts) is also inserted where there is a resemblance. This strategy is especially helpful for those who wish to use the volume for remote comparison. In this manner, it can serve as a reference book for seminars on non-traditional language.
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Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary
This book is the result of over 50 years of research, and it represents an intellectual journey. It is maximally accessible by tabulating the data and inserting frequent cross-references. Dictionary entries are in the alphabetical order of the deepest reconstruction in the set, and there is an English-Utian section at the end of the volume. Yokuts (or Proto Yokuts) is also inserted where there is a resemblance. This strategy is especially helpful for those who wish to use the volume for remote comparison. In this manner, it can serve as a reference book for seminars on non-traditional languages. The volume is also of interest to theoreticians because Utian languages exhibit features that are rare worldwide.
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Proto‐Utian (Miwok‐Costanoan) Case System
Utian (Miwok-Costanoan) is a family of Central California Indian languages, each with a rich case system. Proto-Utian had a possible genitive case, as well as objective, adverbial, allative, locative, instrumental, comitative, and vocative cases. It apparently lacked a nominative case, although the genitive may have functioned as the subject marker of some clauses. The adverbial case specified time, manner, and goal of an action. The allative case indicated direction of an action and precise location. The locative case signaled less precise location. The instrumental case indicated means, the comitative case designated accompaniment, and the vocative case was used in direct address. [KEYWORDS: Amerindian, California, Utian, historical, cases] [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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More Evidence for Yok-Utian: A Reanalysis of the Dixon and Kroeber Sets
Callaghan offers an update on the material in the Dixon and Kroeber article (1919) supporting their original Penutian classification. They compared the Miwok, Costanoan, Yokuts, Wintun and Maidun of Central California. Callaghan has substituted proto-forms whenever possible. In other cases, she has replaced their forms with modern transcriptions in contemporary languages.
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Evidence for Yok-Utian
In the search for a Yok-Utian language, Callaghan examined whether Yokuts and Utian are genertically related at some meaningful time depth and whether Yokuts and Utian are genetically closer to each other than to any other language family or isolate.
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Mary R. Haas's Legacy for Historical Linguistics
A student of Mary R. Haas remembers nine precepts for historical linguistics as taught by Haas: (1) synchronic analysis should precede, not follow, comparison; (2) morphophonemic analysis should be informed by historical developments; (3) grammars, dictionaries, & texts are reference materials of record & should be user-friendly; (4) shallow reconstruction should precede deeper reconstruction, & protolanguages should be compared with protolanguages; (5) internal reconstruction can substitute for a protolanguage in the case of a linguistic isolate; (6) loanwords should be excluded from comparison; (7) cognates should be as close as possible in meaning; (8) relic forms can corroborate deep genetic relationships; & (9) a nondiagnostic word list is required, consisting of words (eg, nursery items, onomatopoeia) that are likely to show accidental similarities across languages. 23 References. L. Lagerquist
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Lake Miwok Irrealis
This article investigates the extent to which categories normally labeled \"irrealis\" are marked in a similar fashion in Lake Miwok, a central California Indian language. Sentences involving negation, the future, wishes, hopes, contrary-to-fact conditions, and result clauses are considered from synchronic and historical perspectives.
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Encounter with John P. Harrington
In this article, I describe my experiences as the first linguist to sift through Harrington's effects when they arrived at the Smithsonian Institution. I then evaluate his contributions to Utian (i.e., Miwok-Costanoan) scholarship.
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