Benasní - I Remember: Dene Sųłiné Oral Histories with Morphological Analysis

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In Benasní - I Remember, Josh Holden presents autobiographical narratives about cultural change from twelve Dene Sųliné elders in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Dene texts are accompanied by an innovative interlinear translation that distinguishes morphology from etymology, and a morphological sketch. Contents Foreword Abbreviations Grammatical Abbreviations Abbreviations in Glosses of Lexical Items The Classifiers - Representation About This Book Chapter One. The Dene Suline People and Language Introduction The Southern Dene Region Chapter Two. The 20th Century in Dillon, Saskatchewan Traditional Economy and Land Use Transportation Demographics Religion, Spirituality and Residential Schools The Dene Suline Language Dialect Variation Sociolinguistic Status Chapter Three. The Narratives The Storytellers Data Collection Methodology Transcription and Translation Editing Orthography Phonological Issues in Transcription Presentation of the Texts Unsegmented Material Verb Stems Representing the Classifiers Repetition of Wordforms Polysemy in the English Glosses Aspect and Number Parts of Speech Monomorphemic Verbs Morphological Idioms BENASNI - I REMEMBER 1. Sophie Chanalquay 2. Norbert Billette 3. Monique Sylvestre 4. Jerome Noltcho 5. Veronique Benjamin 6. Couronne Billette 7. Pierre Noltcho 8. George Billette 9. Patrick Desjarlais 10. Emilien Desjarlais 11. Greg Noltcho 12. Arsene Nezcroche Photographs Morphology and Etymology in the Interlinear Translation 1. The Verb Stem 1.1. Semantic Number Versus Stem Suppletion 1.2. The Classifiers 1.3. Minor Verb Classes 1.4. Summary 2. Verbs---Inflection 2.1. Subject Agreement, Aspect and Mood 2.2. The Status of Aspect and Mood Categories 2.3. Subject Agreement + Imperfective Aspect Allomorphy 2.4. Subject Agreement + Perfective Aspect Allomorphy 2.5. Optative Mood 2.6. Object Agreement 2.7. Quasi-Inflection 2.8. Fossilized Inflection Markers 3. Verbs---Derivation 3.1. Event Phase and Quantification 3.2. Other Event Quantification and Manner Derivations 3.2. Directional and Manner Prefixes 3.3. Evidence of Fossilized Derivational Processes 4. Other Parts of Speech 4.1. Nouns---Inflection 4.2. Nouns and Adjectives---Derivation 4.3. Particles Summary Appendix. Word Senses of the English Glosses Bibliography Index Linguistic Index