Ausaima language and culture
Subtitle: perspectives on ancient California
By: David Leedom Shaul
Series: LINCOM studies in Native American linguistics -- 80
Publisher: LINCOM GmbH
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Muenchen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9783862888399
Subjects: Ohlone language; Dialects; Grammar; Sociolinguistics; Language and culture; Indians of North America; Languages
Other titles: Perspectives on ancient California
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215).
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The manuscript and cultural background; title: 3. An outline of Ausaima/Costanoan ethnography; title: 4. Methods of interpretation; title: 5. The sound system of Ausaima; title: 6. Outline of Ausaima morphosyntax; title: 7. The Ausaima doctrina, three short prayers, and three acts; title: 8. Ausaima and comparative Costanoan; title: 9. Beyond Ausaima, or, Life before the Yokuts; title: 10. Further riddles of Rumsn; title: 11. A linguistic prehistory of Central California; title: 12. Prehistoric sociolinguistics and the disparity of time depth in Central California; title: Appendix A: Ausaima to English vocabulary; title: Appendix B. English to Ausaima index; title: Appendix C: Ausaima words with Costanoan etymologies in Callaghan (2014); title: Appendix D: Ausaima words with cognates in neighboring Costanoan varieties; title: Appendix E. Ausaima words with no known Costanoan or Utian cognate; title: References cited.