A Grammar of Southern Pomo

A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost...
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Author: Neil Alexander Walker
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A Grammar of Southern Pomo by Walker, Neil Alexander

A Grammar of Southern Pomo

¥15,212

A Grammar of Southern Pomo

¥15,212
Author: Neil Alexander Walker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Before European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language.

The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land with more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement.

A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children and the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.

Author: Neil Alexander Walker
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 02/01/2021
Pages: 438
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781496222251

About the Author
Neil Alexander Walker is a research fellow at James Cook University.

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