Penutian

This page is under (slow) construction; last changes 9/5/1997.
Suggestions welcome; contact Scott DeLancey at delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Victor Golla's Penutian bibliography

Linguistically-oriented links:

Catalog of the Archives: Survey for California and Other Indian Languages

at UC Berkeley

Klamath-Modoc Linguistics Page

Eugene Buckley's Alsea page

Also see Gene's homepage for pointers to his work on Alsea, including several Postscript files for downloading:

The Alsea noun phrase

A descriptive survey of the syntax of the noun phrase in Alsea, including the placement of clitics in second position within the NP.

The structure of the Alsea verb root The three pseudo-templatic forms taken by the root in Alsea verbs, involving the presence or absence of a root vowel and the ordering of that vowel with an adjacent sonorant consonant.

Temporal boundaries in Alsea

An analysis of the basic semantics of two important aspectual suffixes in Alsea: -ay, which marks the beginning of an event, and -x, which marks the (successful) completion.

Frachtenberg's Alsea Texts

Bard Coon's Bibliography of Northwest Coast Linguistics

includes coverage of Tsimshianic and Chinookan

Tribal links

The Maidu Mechoopda page

"Nee-Mee-Poo" The People

Also Known as the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho

The Nisga'a People

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Sahaptin

Yakama Nation Cultural Center

Wishram and Sahaptin

Other Penutian links

Papers available at this site

DeLancey, Scott. 1987.Morphological parallels between Klamath and Wintu.

J. Redden, ed., Proc. of the 1987 Hokan-Penutian Conference, pp. 50-60. Carbondale, IL: Dept. of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University.

DeLancey, Scott. 1988. Klamath stem structure in genetic and areal perspective.

S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1988 Hokan-Penutian Workshop, pp. 31-9.

DeLancey, Scott. 1990. Diachronic Notes on the Klamath Verb Suffixes

presented at the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Workshop. published in S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Workshop, pp. 18-27.

DeLancey, Scott. 1996. Argument structure of Klamath bipartite stems

Presented at the 1996 SSILA meeting in San Diego.

DeLancey, Scott. 1996. Penutian in the bipartite stem belt: Disentangling areal and genetic correspondences.

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Topics in Native American Languages.