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A grammar, texts, and dictionary based on materials collected by the author in Oklahoma between 1960 and 1970

Discusses the hotly debated subject of the extent to which the structure of language is inseparable from thought. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, the philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.

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Excerpt from Seneca Thanksgiving RitualsThe word 'thanksgiving' seems no worse a choice than any other and has been used by most previous writers. When confronted with the Seneca words involved, some speakers balk at any attempt to give an English equivalent. Others translate, to some extent accord ing to context, as 'thank, be thankful or grateful to or for, rejoice in, bless, greet'. The trouble is that the Seneca concept is broader than tha...

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH -- REMOTE RELATIONSHIPS -- A BRIEF LOOK AT THE CADDO LANGUAGE -- REFERENCES -- ADDENDA

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The Seneca language belongs to the Northern Iroquoian branch of the Iroquoian language family, where its closest relatives are Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora. This grammatical description, which includes four extended texts in several genres, is the culminatin of the author's long term study of the language over half a century.

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Chafe demonstrates that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present and the free indirect style.

Excerpt from Seneca Thanksgiving RitualsThe word 'thanksgiving' seems no worse a choice than any other and has been used by most previous writers. When confronted with the Seneca words involved, some speakers balk at any attempt to give an English equivalent. Others translate, to some extent accord ing to context, as 'thank, be thankful or grateful to or for, rejoice in, bless, greet'. The trouble is that the Seneca concept is broader than tha...

The Seneca language is a member of the Iroquoian language family. Seneca is a seriously endangered language spoken in upper New York State and Southern Ontario. This book consists of 3 parts. Section I, on orthography, describes a way of writing Seneca words consistently and without omitting features that are significant. Various spelling systems have been used, and are being used, for the writing of Seneca by missionaries, anthropologists, an...