Research Catalog

Title

A grammar of Comanche / Jean Ormsbee Charney.

Author

Charney, Jean Ormsbee, 1942-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors

Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute

Description

x, 270 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Uniform Title

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Subject

Comanche language > Grammar

Note

• "In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A note on transcription -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Remarks on the literature ; Overview -- Phonology: Phonemes ; Stress ; Phonetic details -- Nouns: Nominal roots ; Postpositions ; Demonstratives -- Pronouns: Subject pronouns ; Object pronouns ; Possessive pronouns ; Pronouns in postpositional constructions ; Reflexive/reciprocal constructions ; Reflexive-possessive pronouns ; Interrogative/indefinite pronoun inflection -- Verbs: Verbal roots ; Incorporation, voice, and valence marking ; Motion suffixes ; Verb inflection ; Verbal number -- Noun modifiers: Underived modifiers ; Derived modifiers ; Color terms ; Numerals and other quantifiers -- Adverbs and modal particles: Adverbs ; Modal particles ; Narrative particles -- Simple sentences: The constituents of the simple sentence ; Simple sentences -- Complex sentences: Coordination ; Complex sentences ; Possessive clauses ; The presentative construction ; Sentential complements -- Appendix: text analysis.

ISBN

0803214618 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93030300^

OCLC

28798768

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library