A grammar of Pite Saami
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 focussing on the morphophonology of the main word c...
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ftunivfrankfurt:oai:publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de:34507 2023-05-15T18:08:05+02:00 A grammar of Pite Saami Wilbur, Joshua 2014-07-07 application/pdf http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34507 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-345073 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/34507/Wilbur_Grammar%20of%20Pite%20Saami_2014.pdf eng eng http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34507 urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-345073 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-345073 978-3-944675-47-3 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/34507/Wilbur_Grammar%20of%20Pite%20Saami_2014.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Saamisch Grammatik ddc:490 book doc-type:book 2014 ftunivfrankfurt 2022-12-04T23:41:51Z 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 focussing 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. Book saami Lapland Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
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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 focussing 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. |
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