A grammar of Pite Saami

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Marshall Digital Scholar 2021
• Subjects: saami; Lapland
• Online Access: https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/573; https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/663

Pite 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. https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1572/thumbnail.jpg