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Overview"Although tribal traditions survive among the Tonkawa people, now located in northern Oklahoma, the Tonkawa language has been extinct for more than 75 years. Much of what is known about Tonkawa - an """"isolate"""" language, related to no others - comes to us through the stories collected and translated by twentieth-century anthropologist Harry Hoijer. These texts, constituting the entire remaining oral literature of the Tonkawa people, are edited and presented here in the original Tonkawa and newly translated into English, along with a new and up-to-date grammatical description. Hoijer's original transcriptions were largely unannotated and unglossed and were translated word for word, with no free English translation of full clauses. In this volume, Thomas R. Wier provides translations for each line of text along with morphological analysis of each Tonkawa word. He breaks each line of the original Tonkawa text into its constituent parts, glosses each of these in turn, and translates the whole into English. For the first time in nearly a century, his work supplies an entirely new grammatical description - using the modern terms, conventions, and insights of modern linguistic theory - that will help linguists understand the structure of the Tonkawa language. The tales themselves - divided into """"Night Stories"""" of a pre-human mythological past, and """"Old Stories"""" of humans caught up in unexpected adventures - act as a crucial resource for scholars and any readers interested in the literature of this prominent Native American tribal group. For both the language it preserves and the stories it tells, Tonkawa Texts is an invaluable repository of Tonkawa culture." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Harry Hoijer , Thomas R. WierPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9780806159881ISBN 10: 080615988 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 30 March 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationThomas R. Wier teaches linguistics at the Free University of Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia. His research focuses on some of the world's least-documented languages, including Tonkawa, Fox (Meskwaki), Nahuatl, and other indigenous languages of the Americas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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