A Grammar of the Seneca Language
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A Grammar of the Seneca Language

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Grammar of the Seneca Language

About this book

The Seneca language belongs to the Northern Iroquoian branch of the Iroquoian language family, where its closest relatives are Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora. Seneca holds special typological interest because of its high degree of polysynthesis and fusion. It is historically important because of its central role in the Longhouse religion and its place in the pioneering linguistic work of the 19th century missionary Asher Wright. This grammatical description, which includes four extended texts in several genres, is the culminatin of Chafe's long term study of the language over half a century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. A Grammar of the Seneca Language
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Tables
  9. Abbreviations
  10. 1. Introduction
  11. 2. Phonetics and Phonology
  12. 3. Verb Morphology Part 1. The Minimal Verb
  13. 4. Verb Morphology Part 2: The Prepronominal Prefixes
  14. 5. Verb Morphology Part 3: Expanded Verb Bases
  15. 6. Verb Morphology Part 4: Extended Aspect Suffixes
  16. 7. Noun Morphology
  17. 8. Clitics
  18. 9. Kinship Terms
  19. 10. Syntax Part 1. Amplifying a Pronominal Meaning
  20. 11. Syntax Part 2. Amplifying a spatial, temporal, or modal meaning
  21. 12. Syntax Part 3. Amplifying the meaning of an entire verb
  22. 13. Syntax Part 4. Word order
  23. 14. Syntax Part 5. Coordination
  24. 15. Questions
  25. 16. Imperatives
  26. 17. Interjections
  27. 18. Example Texts
  28. References