Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine)
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American West
Anthropological Linguistics
Assiniboine language
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Comparative linguistics
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Ethnic Studies
Ethnohistory
Fort Belknap
Fort Peck
Grammar
Great Plains American Indian languages
Historical Archeology of the Northern Plains
Historical Linguistics
Indigenous Studies
Language Arts &
language endangerment
linguistic anthropology
Linguistics
Montana history
Montana Native American language
Nakoda reservations
Native American history
Native American Language Revitalization
Native American languages
Native American linguistics
Native American Studies
Native studies
Northern Plains Ethnohistory
Reference
Saskatchewan
Siouan Language
Sioux
US-Canadian Borderlands History
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- ISBN 9781496242839
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2025
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) is the first complete grammar of the Native American language Assiniboine, also known by the endonym Nakoda, a member of the Siouan language family. It addresses all major grammatical categories, including phonology, nouns, verbs, adverbs, enclitics, determiners, syntax, and kinship terminology. It also includes groundbreaking analysis of motion verbs of coming and going, demonstrating that such verbs compose a closed system that is consistent in varying degrees across all Siouan languages.
Over the past century and a half, the classification of the Assiniboine language has suffered due to a complicated history regarding the Dakotan branch of the Siouan language family. Once spoken over a vast contiguous area of the northern plains, Assiniboine/Nakoda is used today among the Assiniboine people in and around Fort Belknap and Fort Peck in Montana and in five reserves in Saskatchewan. A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) establishes the singular basis of the language while also relating its unique features to other Great Plains American Indian languages.
Over the past century and a half, the classification of the Assiniboine language has suffered due to a complicated history regarding the Dakotan branch of the Siouan language family. Once spoken over a vast contiguous area of the northern plains, Assiniboine/Nakoda is used today among the Assiniboine people in and around Fort Belknap and Fort Peck in Montana and in five reserves in Saskatchewan. A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) establishes the singular basis of the language while also relating its unique features to other Great Plains American Indian languages.
Linda A. Cumberland is a former language director at the Kaw Nation of Oklahoma. She has received grants for language preservation research from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
