Gary:
The Lakhota info below isn't new. The Kiowa stuff is incomplete. I don't
have the Kiowa grammar at my office, and don't own copies of the Harrington
stuff.
John
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| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 10:12:52
| From: koontz (John E. Koontz)
| To: kylitalo@phoenix.oulu.fi
| Subject: Kiowa
| Message-ID: <QE104C05@pc-koontz>
The only thing along these lines that I know of for Kiowa is:
Watkins, Laurel. 198?. Kiowa Grammar. U of Nebraska Press.
I'm sorry that this isn't an exact citation, but it should be close enough
to locate it in the US Books in Print volume.
This isn't a teaching grammar, but it's the only thing of substance I can
think of that easily available. The Kiowa scholar Parker MacKenzie has done
a lot himself, but I'm not sure whether anything is published, or, if so,
available to outsiders. Start with this and then consider whether it's
worth writing Watkins or the Kiowa Tribe to ask about additional materials.
There's a small dictionary and some texts by J.P. Harrington, published
earlier in the century by the Bureau of American Ethnography. These might
be available as reprints from, say, Krause. The orthography is old
fashioned and tends to overdifferentiate.
Watkins is currently working on a collection of texts and a dictionary to
appear under the same venue, but I'm not sure how close to fruition they
are.
On Lakhota:
| Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1992 10:44:31
| Subject: Re: Lakota language book?
|
| Original-Sender: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
|
| A belated, and more complete response to the Bond/Trimble request...
|
|
| A variety of books and tapes on the Lakhota dialect of Dakota are
| available from the Colorado University Lakhota Project at the
| University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
|
| [These and other prices may not be current. Write first to ask for prices.]
|
| Beginning Lakhota I (337 pp.) $18 US
| Beginning Lakhota II (331 pp.) $18 US
| Vols I and II together $35 US
|
| Elementary Bilingual Dictionary:
| English-Lakhota, Lakhota-English (317 pp.) $12 US
|
| Lakhota Wayawapi, Graded Readings (134 pp.) $10 US
|
| Tapes to accompany Beg. Lakh. I
| (6 tapes, c. 1 hr. each) $30 US
|
| Note that tapes are for the previous edition
| of the lessons and do not match the present
| edition exactly. They are, however, thoroughly
| usable.
|
| Order from: Colorado University Lakhota Project
| Dept. of Linguistics
| Campus Box 239
| Univ. of Colorado
| Boulder, CO 80309
|
| Makes checks payable to "C.U. Lakhota Project."
| Customer is billed after shipping for postage and handling
| charges.
|
| This information from SSILA Newsletter VIII.3:13a.
|
| Disclosure: I am a part time employee of the Center for the
| Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest, an
| affiliate of the Dept. of Linguistics at the University of
| Colorado. I may benefit indirectly from purchases of C.U. Lak-
| hota Project purchases.
|
| Lakhota vs. Lakota: The Dakotan dialects contrast aspirated and
| unaspirated stops (ph vs. p, th vs. t, ch vs c, kh vs. k), whereas
| English does not. The spelling Lakhota, used in the orthography of
| the CULP materials reflects the fact that the k in Lakhota is
| aspirated, while the t is not. Lakota is the English spelling. Some
| systems of Lakhota spelling that do not mark aspiration also write
| Lakota.
|
| Other materials:
|
| The A. Ross tape Dakota Language mentioned in the 1-MAR-91
| NativeNet contribution by Gary Trujillo is very nice, but deals
| with the Dakhota or Santee dialect (one of the d-dialects of
| Dakotan, as opposed to Lakhota, the l-dialect).
|
| The best published descriptive grammar of Lakhota:
|
| Boas, Franz; Deloria, Ella. 1941. Dakota grammar. National
| Academy of Sciences, Memoir 23, Pt. 2. Washington, DC: US
| Government Printing Office. Reprinted 1979, Vermillion, SD:
| The Dakota Press.
|
| The best published dictionary of Lakhota:
|
| Buechel, Eugene, compiler; Manhart, Paul, ed. 1970. A diction-
| ary of the Teton Dakota Sioux language ... Lakota-English;
| English-Lakota. Vermillion and Pine Ridge, SD: Institute of
| Indian Studies, University of South Dakota & Red Cloud Indian
| School, Inc., of Holy Rosary Mission.
|
| The English-Lakota section is an index to the Lakota-English
| section, not a dictionary in its own right.
|
| The orthography of this dictionary does not mark aspiration
| consistently, but it is often possible to deduce its presence
| even when it is not marked, by cross comparing entries,
| noting part of speech, etc. C` are aspirated; C-dot are unas-
| pirated; C alone may be either, but is usually aspirated noun
| initially, and unaspirated verb initially (including nouns
| formed from verbs, to be recognized by the presence of verbal
| prefixes). C in {ptck}.
|
| Available for $19US from:
|
| Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum
| 350 South Oak St.
| P.O. Box 149
| St. Francis, SD 57572
|
| Traditional Texts:
|
| Deloria, Ella C. 1932. Dakota texts. Publications of the
| American Ethnological Society, No. 14. New York,: G.E.
| Stechert. Reprinted 1974, New York: AMS Press.
|
| In the orthography of Boas & Deloria.
|
| Bibliography:
|
| Reuse, Willem J. de. 1987. One hundred years of Lakota
| linguistics (1887-1987). Kansas Working Papers in
| Linguistics 12:13-42.
|
| Reuse, Willem J. de. 1990. A supplementary bibliography of
| Lakota language and linguistics (1887-1990). Kansas Working
| Papers in Linguistics 15.2:146-165.
|
| KWPL is available from the Linguistics Graduate Student Asso-
| ciation at the Unversity of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
|
| Another useful source for students of American languages is the
| SSILA Newsletter, newsletter of the Society for the Study of the
| Indigenous Languages of the Americas, an organization of linguists
| who study the indigenous languages of the Americas. The newsletter
| is available for $10US annual from Victor Golla, SSILA, Dept. of
| Ethnic Studies, Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, CA 95521. It is
| published quarterly, and lists essentially all publications and
| meetings dealing with the languages in question.
|
| For new publications on American languages see also the annual MLA
| Languages volume and also Bibliographie Linguistique, both available
| in most reference libraries. Books in Print helps locate and price
| books available in the United States of America, including such items
| as the Riggs Dakota Grammar/Ethnography and Grammar, rather outdated,
| but interesting, nonetheless. Another good source of bibliographic
| information is Murdock & O'Leary's Ethnographic Bibliography, and its
| recent supplement by Martin & O'Leary. I also recommend the volumes
| of the Handbook of North American Indians (a long series of massive
| volumes, somewhat mistitled). The Plains and Languages volumes have
| not yet appeared, but see the Subarctic and Eastern volumes for
| treatments of related regions.