Osage grammar
"Osage Grammar is the first documentation of how the Osage language works, including more than two thousand sentences from Osage speakers, and a detailed description of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. Also featured are such components as verb conjugations, derivation, and suffixes; kinship terms; and the nominal system. The importance of documenting a language, especially one on the verge of extinction, can hardly be overstated. Growing up in Osage County, Oklahoma, Carolyn Quintero has been documenting the Osage language for twenty years, speaking to more than a dozen elders and transcribing hundreds of hours of interviews. Her research could not now be repeated since most of the elders whose words appear on these pages are gone."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2004
Grammars (form)
xxvii, 490 pages ; 24 cm.
9780803238039, 0803238037
57614396
Phonology
Agent and patient inflection
Verb derivation
Verb suffixes
Nominal expressions and adjuncts
Clausal phenomena
Osage kinship terms
Published in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington