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Social Science Native American Studies

A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language

by (author) Hanni Woodbury, Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs & Onondaga Language Program

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Mar 2018
Category
Native American Studies, Dictionaries, Native American Languages
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487502829
    Publish Date
    Mar 2018
    List Price
    $125.00

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The Reference Grammar of the Onondaga is a text-based reference grammar of a highly endangered language. The Onondaga language is a Northern Iroquoian language spoken at Six Nations Reserve near Brantford Ontario and at Onondaga Nation near Syracuse, New York. The approach was chosen to insure that the language not be seen through an English filter. The source materials come from many years of the author's own field work, and from extensive documentation of Onondaga texts dating back to the late nineteenth century.

 

Woodbury uses the many text examples to provide detailed and careful explanations of the language's phonological and grammatical processes and takes particular care to explain the technical vocabulary she uses for the convenience of students of the language.

 

Intended as a companion volume to the Onondaga-English/English-Onondaga Dictionary published by University of Toronto Press in 2003, A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language is an accessible guide for students and teachers of the Iroquoian languages, and for the non-Iroquoian linguist with interests in comparative work on Indigenous languages and culture.

About the authors

Hanni Woodbury, Ph.D., is an independent scholar who has been researching the Onondaga language since 1971.

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Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs' profile page

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