Thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language. But the numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in some danger. To help preserve the language while it is still in daily use, Donald G. Frantz and Norma Jean Russell collaborated on the Blackfoot Dictionary, published in 1989 to widespread acclaim and later revised in 1995. Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to the dictionary, has now also been updated with a second edition. The changes made to each chapter reflect new approaches refined through years of teaching experience. New chapters on 'Numbers and Enumeration' and 'Translating from English to Blackfoot' have been added, as well as new exercises and two new appendixes describing the phonetics of Blackfoot and the design of the alphabet. This second edition of Blackfoot Grammar will be a welcome update not only for those who wish to learn the language, but for all those with an interest in Native Studies and North American linguistics.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...A wash hasin, A wash tub, A wash board, A large tub, Sewing machine, Thread, and sinew_ House, or Fort, nap e o yis. A door, kits im e. A window, _ kris to konIe stan. 'A bed, ak sin. Earth, dirt, tchok kome. The sun, nat to se. The moon, (usual namc, ) ko kus nat to se (night sun ) Stars, kok i_ tose. Thunder, . kris to kome ok A ne lightning, ak kun nas we. " k tcr, o ke. Fog, seet se nut se. Smoke, as seet se. Fire, -is tsE. Rain, Snow, Heat, Cold, Ice, Bush. River, Lake, Ravine, Prairie, Timber, Mountain, A spring, Rock, or stone, Coal, stone, Grass, Weed lake. North, South, A road, or trail, A wagon road, A shirt, A tail. Arm, Arteries, Back, Belly, Breast, Blood, Back bone, Bone, Body, Brain, Chin, Eye, Elbow, Face, Finger, Head, Hair, Hand. Heart, Hip, Intestine, Knee, Leg, Liver, -Lungs. Mouth, Muscle, Marrow, Nose, Ribs, Skin, Tongue, Tooth, Urine, Dung, Wind pipe, . Saskatchawan river, Elk river, Bow river, Little Bow river, High river, Elbow river, Pine gulch, Willow creek, Old mans river, Belly river. Kootanay river, Milk river, Cut bank river, Two medicine river, Badger creek, L'epcoye creek, Muddy creek, Teton river, Missouri river, Sun river, ('l..itfmcrn1ain, Sweet grass hills, Pear paw mountains, Old Ft. Kipp, Ft. Hamilton, Piegan Agency, Ft. Benton, Ft. Assinaboine, Milk river ridge, A doctor, A priest, A carpenter, A watchman, A blacksmith, A gunsmith, Meat, green, Meat, dry, Dried tongue, Coal oil, Wood, Steam-boat, Following are:1 few examples, showing the use of the pronoun before the noun. My horse, Your horse, His horse, My gun, Your gun, His gun, My child, Your child, His child, no tas. ko tas. o tas. ne nA mA. ke nA mA. o nA mA. no kose. ko kose. o kose. My wife, Your wife, His wife, ...

The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai, vii, vta, and viti syntactic categories.

The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

"Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors represented in the Brinton Library."--BOOK JACKET.

Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.