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Although tribal traditions survive among the Tonkawa people, now
located in northern Oklahoma, the Tonkawa language has been extinct
for more than 75 years. Much of what is known about Tonkawa - an
""isolate"" language, related to no others - comes to us through
the stories collected and translated by twentieth-century
anthropologist Harry Hoijer. These texts, constituting the entire
remaining oral literature of the Tonkawa people, are edited and
presented here in the original Tonkawa and newly translated into
English, along with a new and up-to-date grammatical description.
Hoijer's original transcriptions were largely unannotated and
unglossed and were translated word for word, with no free English
translation of full clauses. In this volume, Thomas R. Wier
provides translations for each line of text along with
morphological analysis of each Tonkawa word. He breaks each line of
the original Tonkawa text into its constituent parts, glosses each
of these in turn, and translates the whole into English. For the
first time in nearly a century, his work supplies an entirely new
grammatical description - using the modern terms, conventions, and
insights of modern linguistic theory - that will help linguists
understand the structure of the Tonkawa language. The tales
themselves - divided into ""Night Stories"" of a pre-human
mythological past, and ""Old Stories"" of humans caught up in
unexpected adventures - act as a crucial resource for scholars and
any readers interested in the literature of this prominent Native
American tribal group. For both the language it preserves and the
stories it tells, Tonkawa Texts is an invaluable repository of
Tonkawa culture.
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
Additional Editors Are Donald Collier, C. W. M. Hart, W. C. McKern
And Sol Tax. Memoir No. 72.
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Although tribal traditions survive among the Tonkawa people, now
located in northern Oklahoma, the Tonkawa language has been extinct
for more than 75 years. Much of what is known about Tonkawa - an
""isolate"" language, related to no others - comes to us through
the stories collected and translated by twentieth-century
anthropologist Harry Hoijer. These texts, constituting the entire
remaining oral literature of the Tonkawa people, are edited and
presented here in the original Tonkawa and newly translated into
English, along with a new and up-to-date grammatical description.
Hoijer's original transcriptions were largely unannotated and
unglossed and were translated word for word, with no free English
translation of full clauses. In this volume, Thomas R. Wier
provides translations for each line of text along with
morphological analysis of each Tonkawa word. He breaks each line of
the original Tonkawa text into its constituent parts, glosses each
of these in turn, and translates the whole into English. For the
first time in nearly a century, his work supplies an entirely new
grammatical description - using the modern terms, conventions, and
insights of modern linguistic theory - that will help linguists
understand the structure of the Tonkawa language. The tales
themselves - divided into ""Night Stories"" of a pre-human
mythological past, and ""Old Stories"" of humans caught up in
unexpected adventures - act as a crucial resource for scholars and
any readers interested in the literature of this prominent Native
American tribal group. For both the language it preserves and the
stories it tells, Tonkawa Texts is an invaluable repository of
Tonkawa culture.
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