English-Cayuga/Cayuga-English Dictionary

English-Cayuga/Cayuga-English Dictionary
Title English-Cayuga/Cayuga-English Dictionary PDF eBook
Author Frances Froman
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 804
Release 2002-01-01
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780802036186

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The first comprehensive lexicographic work on Cayuga, with over 3000 entries, including 1000 verb forms and many nouns never before printed, extensive cross-referencing, and thematic appendices that highlight cultural references.

A grammar and dictionary of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga)

A grammar and dictionary of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga)
Title A grammar and dictionary of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) PDF eBook
Author Carrie Dyck
Publisher Language Science Press
Pages 1140
Release 2024-01-19
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3961104344

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This work describes the grammar of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀnéha:ˀ, Cayuga), an Ǫgwehǫ́weh (Iroquoian) language spoken at Six Nations, Ontario, Canada. Topics include Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀnéha:ˀ morphology (word formation); pronominal prefix selection, meaning, and pronunciation; syntax (fixed word order); and discourse (the effects of free word order and noun incorporation, and the use of particles). Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀnéha:ˀ morphophonology and sentence-level phonology are also described where relevant in the grammar. Finally, the work includes noun, verb, and particle dictionaries, organized according to the categories outlined in the grammatical description, as well as lists of cultural terms and phrases.

Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures

Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures
Title Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 380
Release 2017-09-18
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004353062

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Translating Catechisms, Translating Cultures explores the dimensions of early modern transcultural Christianities; the leeway of religious negotiation in and outside of Europe by comparing catechisms and their translation in the context of several Jesuit missionary strategies. The volume challenges the often assumed paramount Europeanness of Western Christianity. In the early modern period the idea of Tridentine Catholicism was translated into many different regions where it was appropriated and adopted to local conditions. Missionary work always entails translation, linguistic as well as cultural, which results in a modification of the content. Catechisms were central instruments to communicate Christian belief and, therefore, they are central media for all kinds of translation processes. The comparative approach (including China, India, Japan, Ethiopia, Northern America and England) enables the evaluation of different factors like power relations, social differentiation, cultural patterns, gender roles etc. Contributors are: Takao Abé, Anand Amaladass, Leonhard Cohen, Renate Dürr, Antje Flüchter, Ana Hosne, Giulia Nardini, John Ødemark, John Steckley, Alexandra Walsham, Rouven Wirbser.

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
Title The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America PDF eBook
Author Carmen Dagostino
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 922
Release 2023-12-18
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 3110712814

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This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Shirts Powdered Red

Shirts Powdered Red
Title Shirts Powdered Red PDF eBook
Author Maeve E. Kane
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 306
Release 2023-02-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501767909

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Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their nations from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century. By looking at clothing that was bought, created, and remade, Maeve Kane brings to life how Haudenosaunee women used access to global trade to maintain a distinct and enduring Haudenosaunee identity in the face of colonial pressures to assimilate and disappear. Drawing on rich oral, archival, material, visual, and quantitative evidence, Shirts Powdered Red tells the story of how Haudenosaunee people worked to maintain their nations' cultural and political sovereignty through selective engagement with trade and the rhetoric of civility, even as Haudenosaunee clothing and gendered labor increasingly became the focus of colonial conversion efforts throughout the upheavals and dispossession of the nineteenth century. Shirts Powdered Red offers a sweeping, detailed cultural history of three centuries of Haudenosaunee women's labor and their agency to shape their nations' future.

Born in the Blood

Born in the Blood
Title Born in the Blood PDF eBook
Author Brian Swann
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 485
Release 2011-06-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0803267592

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Since Europeans first encountered Native Americans, problems relating to language and text translation have been an issue. Translators needed to create the tools for translation, such as dictionaries, still a difficult undertaking today. Although the fact that many Native languages do not share even the same structures or classes of words as European languages has always made translation difficult, translating cultural values and perceptions into the idiom of another culture renders the process even more difficult. ø In Born in the Blood, noted translator and writer Brian Swann gathers some of the foremost scholars in the field of Native American translation to address the many and varied problems and concerns surrounding the process of translating Native American languages and texts. The essays in this collection address such important questions as, what should be translated? how should it be translated? who should do translation? and even, should the translation of Native literature be done at all? This volume also includes translations of songs and stories.

Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language

Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language
Title Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language PDF eBook
Author John L. Steckley
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 697
Release 2020-12-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0228005159

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In 1911-1912, French-Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a century later Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language continues Barbeau's work. John Steckley provides an engaging analysis and fresh translation of the texts in order to preserve the traditional language and cultural heritage of the Wyandot or Wendat people. Leveraging four decades of studying the dialects of Wyandot and Wendat and his role as tribal linguist for the Wyandotte Nation, the author corrects errors in Barbeau's earlier text while adding personal anecdotes to provide readers with a unique comparative work. The stories in this collection, largely drawn from the traditional folklore of the Wyandot people and told in a language that has been dormant for decades, act as a time capsule for traditional tales, Indigenous history, humour, and Elder knowledge. Steckley's new translation not only aids Wyandot peoples of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Michigan in reclaiming their language but also gives researchers worldwide a rich, up-to-date reference for linguistic study. A significant literary record of a people and a language, Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language is a major contribution to the preservation and revitalization of an Indigenous language in North America.