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A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description
of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker
in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken
in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of
California. Before European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples
spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are
scattered across several present-day reservations. These
descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the
language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded
in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the
many different species of oak trees and their different acorns,
which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is
unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms
marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs
similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their
land with more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating
specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new
light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech
community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses
phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language
and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech
communities can create and pass on to children and the degree to
which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description
of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker
in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken
in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of
California. Before European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples
spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are
scattered across several present-day reservations. These
descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the
language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded
in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the
many different species of oak trees and their different acorns,
which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is
unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms
marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs
similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their
land with more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating
specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new
light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech
community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses
phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language
and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech
communities can create and pass on to children and the degree to
which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
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