Ute Reference Grammar

T. Givón | University of Oregon

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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.

[Culture and Language Use, 3] 2011. xxiii, 441 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 18 May 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.3

Table of Contents

Table of contents | pp. i–xvii

Preface | pp. xix–xx

Foreword | pp. xxi–xxii

Namu-máy-vaa-tu- | pp. xxiii–xxiv

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–14

Chapter 2. Sound system and orthography | pp. 15–32

Chapter 3. Word classes and word structure | pp. 33–62

Chapter 4. Simple clauses: Verb types, participant roles, and grammatical relations | pp. 63–92

Chapter 5. The diachrony of Ute case-marking | pp. 93–116

Chapter 6. Tense, aspect, modality and negation | pp. 117–154

Chapter 7. Noun phrases-I: Referential coherence | pp. 155–192

Chapter 8. Noun phrases-II: Larger noun modifiers | pp. 193–212

Chapter 9. Verbal complements | pp. 213–230

Chapter 10. De-Transitive Voice | pp. 231–262

Chapter 11. The diachrony of Ute passives | pp. 263–272

Chapter 12. Relative clauses | pp. 273–292

Chapter 13. Contrastive focus and emphasis | pp. 293–302

Chapter 14. Non-declarative speech acts | pp. 303–334

Chapter 15. Possession | pp. 335–346

Chapter 16. Comparative constructions | pp. 347–356

Chapter 17. Adverbial clauses | pp. 357–388

Chapter 18. Clause chaining and discourse coherence | pp. 389–404

Chapter 19. Lexical derivation patterns | pp. 405–426

Chapter 20. Interjections | pp. 427–430

Bibliography | pp. 431–434

Index | pp. 435–444

“This is an impressive and extremely valuable piece of work, comprehensive and richly exemplified throughout. It will serve as the authoritative reference to the inner workings of a very interesting, complex, and highly endangered language. In combination with the promised republication of the Ute Dictionary and Ute Traditional Narratives, it will fill an important gap in the documentation of the world’s linguistic diversity.”

Tim Thornes, Boise State University, Anthropoligical Linguistics 54(1): 89-95 (2012)

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