A study of Dakota Sioux presents evidence for Possessor Ascension. In this construction, a nominal that is semantically a possessor is syntactically not a constituent of the noun phrase but a constituent of the clause. The report first discusses the universal characterization of Possessor Ascension in the framework of relational grammar, and…

The modally unmarked verb forms may be constructed individually, according to a set of familiar principles, from grammatical elements within each inflectional order. A distinction between semological and grammatical units is important to such description and prediction. (MSE)

Where the lexical item is a body part, the lexical suffix substitutes for its entire content. (MSE)

It is argued that the so-called fourth person or obviative of Chippewa and probably other Algonkian languages is the result of a syntactic feature switch rule, and that the "fourth person" label is inapproapriate and misleading. (CK)

Upland Yuman speakers are located in parts of Arizona. The Yavapai, Havasupai and Hualapai dialects are discussed and compared for auxiliaries, verb markers, possessives, and negatives. (SC)

Volume I, the reader, has 86 lessons consisting of short passages and vocabulary lists. The language and the stories presented were learned and collected at the Indian community and Hacienda of Cayara near Potosi, Bolivia. Translations of the passages are provided in a separate section. The second volume presents the grammar and phonology of the…

The document presents a survey and evaluation of the literature on Louisiana Indian languages. The methodology employed was the library search. Sources were publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, anthropological and linguistic works, pertinent theses and dissertations, and other works relating to the subject. The first part of the…

The Navajo spelling lists are intended for teachers or materials writers who require sets of Navajo words with certain characteristics. The lists are derived from the corpus collected as the basis for a computer-assisted study of the vocabulary of 6-year-old Navajo children. Words in the corpus, whether used by adult interviewers or by children,…

Presents the main outlines of the phonology of the Arekuna language as it is spoken by the Arekuna Indians of Guyana. (Author/RM)

This paper describes the use of Keresan Pueblo Indian Sign Language (KPISL) in one small, Keresan-speaking pueblo in central New Mexico, where 15 out of 650 tribal members have severe to profound hearing loss (twice the national average). KPISL did not originate for the same purposes as the Plains Indian Sign Language, (PISL) which was developed…

Different groups of American Indians, who speak different languages, live in Arizona and New Mexico, and those parts of California, Nevada, Utah and Texas considered The Southwest''. (Author)

Data based on residence in San Pedro, October 1970-May 1971. (DD)

Revised and extended version of a paper presented to the Seventh International Conference on Salish Languages, August 1972; research supported by the National Museum of Canada, Simon Fraser University, Rice University, and the Canada Council. Bella Coola is a Salishan language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. (DD)

Research supported by grants from the American Philosophical Society, the University of Kansas, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the University of Washington. Preliminary version presented at the Fourth International Conference on Salish Languages, Victoria, British Columbia, August 25-26, 1969. (VM)