Atkan Aleut Language Alaska School Grammar Book by Knut
Bergsland. Softcover, 166 pages,
c1981. Cover has handling wear. Pages are clean with good binding.
The aim of this grammar is
to analyze in some detail the mechanisms of the Aleut language as represented
by older speakers and by earlier sources, and is intended for both students of
Aleut and linguists in general. An introductory chapter gives background on the
language's history, linguistic documentation, Aleut dialects, and outside
influences. Subsequent chapters address these topics: phonology (phonemes,
phonotactics, internal and external sandhi, contours, and expressive features);
morphology (inflection and word classes, derivation/postbases); and syntax
(subject and predicate, object, oblique terms, addition and removal of terms,
construction of indefiniteness, noun phrases, temporal adverbials, verb
phrases, conjoined predicates, clauses of purpose, linked clauses, anterior,
conditional, participle clauses, report clauses, sentence connections). Some
crucial structural differences from the cognate Eskimo language are discussed
in the final chapter.
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