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Abbott and Mansfield's primer, first published in the nineteenth
century and many times reprinted, remains one of the best
introductions to Greek grammar. This is the latest edition,
containing both accidence and syntax.
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the
Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
A Native American language formerly spoken in hundreds of
communities in the interior of California, Patwin (also known as
Wintun T'ewe) is now spoken by a small but growing number of
language revitalizationists and their students. A Grammar of Patwin
brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio
recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States
and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published
description of the Patwin language. This book shines a light on the
knowledge of past speakers and researchers with a clear and
well-organized description supported by ample archival evidence.
Lewis C. Lawyer addresses the full range of grammatical structure
with chapters on phonetics, phonology, nominals, nominal modifiers,
spatial terms, verbs, and clauses. At every level of grammatical
structure there is notable variation between dialects, and this
variation is painstakingly described. An introductory chapter
situates the language geographically and historically and also
gives a detailed account of previous work on the language and of
the archival materials on which the study is based. Throughout the
process of writing this book, Lawyer remained in contact with
Patwin communities and individuals, who helped to ensure that the
content is appropriate from a cultural perspective.
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