Ute Texts

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272423

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Ute Texts by Anonim Pdf

This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tight connection to the local terrain, flora and fauna that supported the hunter-gatherer life. Ute story-telling tradition is the people's literary heritage, with the narrative style allowing considerable artistic freedom and diversity in contents and style. Stories were not memorized verbatim, and story-tellers took creative liberty in elaborating and re-inventing the 'same' tale. The core cultural contents of each story are nevertheless preserved across tellers. Ute stories were most likely told at night around the fire, in front of or inside the lodge, to a mixed audience of children and adults who had heard the tale many time before. The stories aimed to both instruct and entertain. Their underlying themes are stoic and oft-cynical reflections on the vagaries of human behavior and harsh existence. They are the foundational literary tradition of The People--Núuchi-u.

Author : William Bright
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886603

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Southern Paiute and Ute Linguistics and Ethnography by William Bright Pdf

The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language specialists are providing significant assistance in the making of this multi-volume series.

Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268396

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Ute Dictionary by T. Givón Pdf

This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the dictionary. The bulk of the information on the meaning and usage of Ute words is then given in the Ute-English part. The English-Ute part, next, serves primarily as a search-and-reference tool. A short section on traditional semantic-cultural fields follows. Ute is a Northern Uto-Aztecan language of the Numic sub-family. Together with its northern dialects (Southern Paiute, Uintah, White River), it should be considered a single language, Núuchi ("of the people") or Núu-'apaghapi ("the people's speech"). While our work was done primarily in the southern dialects (Southern Ute, Ute Mountain, Uncompaghre), we have included as many words as could be safely extracted from Powel's and Smith's work on the northern dialects, as well as some from Sapir's work (1931) on Northern Ute, adjusting them to Southern-dialect pronunciation. This brings the work as close as one could hope, at this time, to a comprehensive all-Ute dictionary, a task that yet remains to be done. We have tried to emphasize in the Ute-English entries the historical and derivational connectivity of Ute vocabulary and its gradual growth and expansion. This is also underscored in the introductory chapter on word derivation. While this work remains incomplete, we hope it can be some day expanded into an all-inclusive Ute dictionary, and will help the people – Núuchiu – preserve their language and culture.

Author : William Cowan,Michael K. Foster,E. F. K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245229

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New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality by William Cowan,Michael K. Foster,E. F. K. Koerner Pdf

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) a conference was held in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada, where Sapir had his office for most of his time as Chief of the Anthropological Division of the Geographical Survey of Canada (1910-1925). This volume presents papers from that conference.

Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001692081

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The Collected Works of Edward Sapir: Southern Painte and Ute linguistics and ethnography by Edward Sapir Pdf

Author : Brandi Denison
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496201393

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Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009 by Brandi Denison Pdf

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America--twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisement by tracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This shift was made possible through the development and deployment of an idealized American religion based on Enlightenment ideals of individualism, Victorian sensibilities about the female body, and an emerging respect for diversity and commitment to religious pluralism that was wholly dependent on a separation of economics from religion. As the narrative unfolds, Denison shows how Utes and their Anglo-American allies worked together to systematize a religion out of existing ceremonial practices, anthropological observations, and Euro-American ideals of nature. A variety of societies then used religious beliefs and practices to give meaning to the land, which in turn shaped inhabitants' perception of an exclusive American religion. Ultimately, this movement from the tangible to the abstract demonstrates the development of a normative American religion, one that excludes minorities even as they are the source of the idealized expression.

Author : Henry Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : English language
ISBN : OXFORD:300006142

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The oldest English texts by Henry Sweet Pdf

Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228673

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Topic Continuity in Discourse by Talmy Givón Pdf

The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major departure from past practices, without rejecting both their intuitive appeal and the many good results yielded by them. First, “topic” and “topicality” are re-analyzed as a scalar property, rather than as an either/or discrete prime. Second, the graded property of “topicality” is firmly connected with sensible cognitive notions culled from gestalt psychology, such as “predictability” or “continuity”. Third, we develop and utilize precise measures and quantified methods by which the property of “topicality” of clausal arguments can be studied in connected discourse, and thus be properly hinged in its rightful context, that of topic identification, maintenance and recoverability in discourse. Fourth, we show that many grammatical phenomena which used to be studied by linguists in isolation, all partake in one functional domain of grammar, that of topic identification. Finally, we demonstrate the validity of this new approach to the study of “topic” and “topicality” by applying the same text-based quantifying method to a number of typologically-diverse languages, in studying actual texts. Languages studied here are: Written and spoken English, spoken Spanish, Biblical Hebrew, Amharic, Hausa, Japanese, Chamorro and Ute.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39076001562862

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Anthropology & Education Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kasper Boye,Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219173

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Language Usage and Language Structure by Kasper Boye,Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen Pdf

Addresses an issue hotly debated in the linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Reference
ISBN : MINN:319510011315059

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Native American Folklore, 1879-1979 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis P. Dinneen,E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278050

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North American Contributions to the History of Linguistics by Francis P. Dinneen,E.F.K. Koerner Pdf

This volume unites papers given by members of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) at meetings held in Washington, D.C., in March and December 1989, respectively. They represent the scope and breadth of interest of North American scholars in this growing field, ranging from linguistic concepts, ideas, and theories in the Classical Greek and Roman period to developments in grammatical theory and sociolinguistics in the second half of the 20th century, and from the study of American Indian languages in the 17th through the present century and the philosophy of language from Aristotle to John Locke, to F.B. Skinner and Chomsky. A detailed Index of Authors, including life-dates, rounds off the volume. The text of this volume has also been published in Historiographia Linguistica XVII:1/2.

Author : Morton Ann Gernsbacher,T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276353

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Coherence in Spontaneous Text by Morton Ann Gernsbacher,T. Givón Pdf

The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic representation as the speech producer had in mind. In producing and comprehending a text, be it spoken or written, the interlocutors collaborate towards coherence. They negotiate for a common ground of shared topicality, reference and thematic structure – thus toward a similar mental representation of the text. In conversation, the negotiation takes place between the present participants. In writing or oral narrative, the negotiation takes place in the mind of the text producer, between the text producer and his/her mental representation of the mind of the absent or inactive interlocutor. The cognitive mechanisms that underlie face-to-face communication thus continue to shape text production and comprehension in non-interactive contexts.Most of the papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Coherence in Spontaneous Text, held at the University of Oregon in the spring of 1992.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044038015574

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Early English Text Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287410

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Ute Reference Grammar by T. Givón Pdf

Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster of intriguing features, best viewed from the perspective of diachronic change and grammaticalization. The book presents a comprehensive synchronic description of grammatical structures and their communicative functions, as well as a diachronic account of a grammar in the midst of change. The book is the first of a 3-volume series which also includes a collection of oral texts and a dictionary. Ute speakers and tribal members may find in the present volume a step-by-step description of how words are combined into meaningful communication. Linguists may find a detailed account of one language, an account that is unabashedly informed by universals of grammar, communication and change.