New Lakota Dictionary: Lakhotiyapi-English/English-Lakhotiyapi & Incorporating the Dakota Dialects of Santee-Sisseton Yankton-Yanktonai - Brossura

Lakota Language Consortium

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0976108291 ISBN 13: 9780976108290

Casa editrice: Lakota Language Consortium Inc, 2008

Riassunto

This 23,000-word Second Edition of the NLD provides a reliable, accurate, and user-friendly reference text and serves as a central component of the revitalization movement. It is an indispensable resource for advanced language users as well as beginning students of the language and has many innovative features including: Over 40,000 example sentences, usage notes, and collocations; A modern layout that makes it easy to find words and their usage; 3,160 more entries than the first edition of the NLD; A standard orthography that adequately marks all meaningful sounds in the language; All verb entries include conjugation paradigms; Special symbols that mark the 3,000 most important words; Descriptions of word-stems and stem nests.The volume forms the foundation for Lakota and Dakota languages and provides the basis upon which students, teachers, and community members can move forward with confidence in restoring the living language.

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L'autore:

Lakota Language Consortium is the leading publisher of Lakota language materials. Jan F. Ullrich is the Linguistic Director of the Lakota language Consortium and has published numerous textbooks and other materials in the language

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

The New Lakota Dictionary is a breakthrough in contemporary Native American language studies...revolutionizes what we understand about the historical development of Lakota and Dakota dialects...clarifies many problems found in earlier lexical works...much needed and innovative. --William K. Powers, author of Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Lakota Language Consortium Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0976108291
• ISBN 13: 9780976108290
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1100
• Redattore: Ullrich Jan F.