A Grammar of Pite Saami
Joshua Wilbur
A Grammar of Pite Saami
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Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language written in English. While focussing on the morphophonology of the main word classes nouns, adjectives and verbs, it also deals with other linguistic structures such as prosody, phonology, phrase types and clauses. Furthermore, it provides an introduction to the language and its speakers, and an outline of a preliminary Pite Saami orthography. An extensive annotated spoken-language corpus collected over the course of five years forms the empirical foundation for this description, and each example includes a specific reference to the corpus in order to facilitate verification of claims made on the data. Descriptions are presented for a general linguistics audience and without attempting to support a specific theoretical approach, but this book should be equally useful for scholars of Uralic linguistics, typologists, and even learners of Pite Saami

Language
English
ISBN
978-3-944675-47-3
Acknowledgements
Symbols and abbreviations
Introduction
The Pite Saami language and its speakers
Linguistic genealogy
Names for Pite Saami
Geography
The state of the Pite Saami language
Linguistic documentation of Pite Saami
Previous studies
The Pite Saami Documentation Project corpus
Collection methods
Using this description
Accountability and verifiability
Accessing archived materials
Explaining examples
Orthographic considerations
Typological profile
Prosody
Monosyllabic word structure
Multisyllabic word structure
Word stress
Relevant prosodic domains
Foot
Foot onset
V1
The consonant center
V2
C2
V3
C3
Discussion and examples
Syllabification
A note on syllables and feet
Utterance-level prosody
Intonation in utterances
Utterance-final weakening
Segmental phonology
Consonants
Consonant phonemes and allophonic variations
Preaspiration
Geminates
Plosives
Voiceless singleton plosives
Voiceless geminate plosives
Preaspirated singleton plosives
Preaspirated geminate plosives
Non-voiced plosive durations in the consonant center
Affricates
Plain singleton affricates
Plain geminate affricates
Preaspirated singleton affricates
Preaspirated geminate affricates
Fricatives
Singleton fricative consonants
Geminate fricative consonants
Fricatives and preaspiration
Dialect variation and the historical voiced dental fricative
Nasals
Singleton nasal consonants
Geminate nasal consonants
Oral sonorants
Singleton trill consonant
Geminate trill consonant
Singleton lateral approximant
Geminate lateral approximant
Singleton central approximant
Geminate central approximant
Sonorants and preaspiration
Consonant clusters
CCs in onset position
CCs in coda position
Heterosyllabic CCs in the consonant center
Vowels
Vowel phonemes and allophonic variations
Close front high vowel
Close-mid front vowel
Open-mid front vowel
Short open front vowel
Long open front vowel
Open-mid back vowel
Close-mid back vowel
Close back vowel
Close back to open front vowel
Epenthetic schwa
Morphological patterns and word classes
Overview of morphology
Linear morphology
Non-linear morphology (morphophonology)
Consonant gradation
Umlaut
Vowel harmony
Overview of word classes
Nominals I: Nouns
Number in nouns
The nominal case system
Nominative case
Genitive case
Accusative case
Illative case
Inessive case
Elative case
Comitative case
Abessive case
Essive case
Number and case marking on nouns
Nominal suffixes
Nominal suffixes and syncretism
Nominal suffixes with a -j component
Non-linear noun morphology
Problematic case/number marking in abessive case
Inflectional classes for nouns
Class I
Class Ie
Class II
Class III
Class IIIa
Class IIIb
Class III summary
Summary of noun classes
Possessive suffixes
Nominals II: Pronouns
Personal pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Interrogative pronouns
Interrogative pronouns with human referents
Interrogative pronouns with non-human referents
Interrogative pronouns concerning a selection
General selection using mikkir-
Limited selection using gåb-
Non-nominal interrogative pro-forms
Relative pronouns
Adjectivals
Attributive adjectives
Attributive adjectives in elliptic constructions
Predicative adjectives
A note on attributive and predicative adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
Comparing NP referents
Restrictions on smáva and unna ‘small’
Quantifiers
Demonstratives
Numerals
Basic numerals
Derivation and suppletion in ordinal numerals
Complex numerals
Numerals and morphosyntax
Verbs
Finite verbs and inflectional categories
Person and number
Tense
Mood
Imperative mood
Potential mood
Non-finite verb forms and periphrastically marked verbal categories
Future
Aspect
Perfect
Progressive
Progressive verb forms used adverbially
Negation
Passive voice
Morphological marking strategies on verbs
Inflectional suffixes for verbs
Verbal suffixes and syncretism
Non-linear morphology in verbs
Vowel harmony patterns for verbs
The potential mood: inflection or derivation?
Inflectional classes for verbs
Class I
Class II
Class III
Class IV
Class V
Other possible verb classes
The verb årrot ‘be’
The negation verb
Summary of verb classes
Other word classes
Adverbs
Derived adverbs
Lexical adverbs
The question marker gu∼gus
Adpositions
Postpositions
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Derivational morphology
Nominal derivation
The diminutive suffix -tj
The general nominalizer suffix -k
The action nominalizer suffix -o
The agent nominalizer suffix -däddje
The state nominalizer suffix -vuohta
Verbal derivation
The diminutive verbalizer suffix -tj
The verbal derivational suffix -st
The verbal derivational suffix -d
The verbal derivational suffix -dall
Passivization with the derivational suffix -duvv
Adjectival derivation
Adjective derivation
Ordinal numeral derivation with -át
Adverbial derivation
Summary of derivational morphology
Phrase types
Verb complex
Nominal phrases
NPs in adverbial function
Adjectival phrases
APs in adverbial function
Adverbial phrases
Postpositional phrases
Overview of the syntax of sentences
Grammatical relations
Constituent order at clause level
Information structure
Basic clauses
Declarative clauses
Basic intransitive declaratives
Clauses with a passive verb
Basic transitive declaratives
Existential clauses
Copular clauses
Multi-verb declarative clauses
Modal verbs
The aspectual auxiliary verb årrot
The negation verb
Interrogative clauses
Constituent interrogative clauses
Polar interrogative clauses
Polar interrogatives and the question marker
Clauses in the imperative mood
Clauses in the potential mood
Complex clauses
Clausal coordination
Clausal subordination
Complement clauses
Complement clauses with a finite predicate
Complement clauses with an infinitive predicate
Adverbial clauses
Other subordinate clauses with non-finite verb forms
Relative clauses
Appendix: Inventory of recordings
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
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