1 andrej a. kibrik ([email protected]) encoding directions in upper kuskokwim athabaskan: a case...
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Andrej A. Kibrik([email protected])
ENCODING DIRECTIONS IN UPPER KUSKOKWIM ATHABASKAN:
A CASE STUDY IN FIELD ETHNOLINGUISTICS
Field Linguistics Conference Moscow, October 2009
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Basic information about Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan (UKA)
About 25 speakers left out of the population of about 200
Most speakers reside in the village of Nikolai Actual use of UKA – in two or three households Prior work – Collins and Petruska 1979 Kibrik’s field trips in 1997, 2001, and 2009 As in other Athabaskan:
polysynthesis highly complex verb morphology and
morphophonemics
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Welcome to Nikolai
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Field work environment in Nikolai
Very few speakersVery little motivation to do linguistic
workVery expensiveBut very nice and hospitable people
(generally)
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Domain under consideration
Organization of spatial representation
Directional adverbs Dimensional directionals
• Riverine orientation• Elevational orientation
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Data
Natural discourse recordings (transcribed) Folk stories Personal stories Conversation (pre-arranged) Interview at school In all – about 8 hours of talk
Elicited examples
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Abundance of directionals and locatives in discourse
noygi digheloye hidenin ghelheŒ yats’in nehwdadidził ts’eŒ
uphill mountain slope perhaps other.side brush.was.piled.up and
notsints’eŒ nehulkanh ts’eŒ degheneŒ <…>downhill they.were.pushing.earth Comp he.used.to.say
yiŒots’ digheloye denin yihw hulkanh <…>from.uphill mountain slope there they.ploughed.out
nodigw hwk’oy hwts’inh noŒin yotsin hidenin hwdinelkanh<…>
uphill ridge from further downhill slope it.was.leveled.out
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Schematic representation of the UKA native area
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Riverine orientation:upriver vs. downriver
Roots: -n- ‘upriver’ -d- ‘downriver’
Basic examples y-o-n-aŒ zido ‘He lives upriver’
Pref-Pref-upriver-Id he.lives
n-o-d-o-ts’ tekashPref-Pref-downriver-Id-El you.paddle‘Come this way (by boat, from downriver)’
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Elevational orientation:uphill vs. downhill
Roots: -n(w)g- ‘uphill’ -ts- ‘downhill’
Basic examples: n-o-ts-in tighisyoł
Pref-Pref-downhill-Id I.will.go‘I will go downhill’
minh y-o-ng-w-tlake Pref-Pref-uphill-Id-Punct‘The lake is up there’
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Deictic orientation
X is at the river bank, Y is away from the river:
X speaks to Y: n-o-ng-i tighisyoł ‘I will go uphill’
Pref-Pref-uphill-Id I.will.go
Y speaks to X: y-o-ts-ets’ teyosh
Pref-Pref-downhill-El you.go‘Come here (from downhill)’
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Relevance of scale
Nikolai
Telida
local
grand
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Local vs. grand scale
Local scale: y-o-ng-i sikayih hi-ts’eŒ
notighisdołPref-Pref-uphill-Id my.house Ar-to I.will.go‘I will go to my house’
Grand scale: dotron’ n-o-ts-in nonot’wh
raven Pref-Pref-downhill-Id it.flies‘A raven flies away from the mountains’
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Templatic morphology
A B C D E F
Referential Prefix Prefix Root Idiosyncratic suffix
Localization
hw(areal)
y (default)n (default)d (relative)
o (default) d (downriver)n (upriver)ts (downhill)n(w)g (uphill)
oŒaŒini/w
w(gh) (regional)(e)t (punctual)(e)ts’(eŒ) (elative)ts’in (adessive)
ghw (diminutive)
Close to 100 forms just from these four roots
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Examples of meaningful affixes
sichila sungha ghw-ts-et zidomy.younger.brother my.older.brother dim-downhill-punct he.lives‘My younger brother lives a little below my older brother’
n-o-nwh-ts’eŒ tighisyołpref-pref-uphill-el I.will.go‘I will go down (from an elevation)’
y-o-n-wgh noghimałpref-pref-upriver-reg it.is.swimming.across‘It is swimming upriver across the river’
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Conclusions
Dimensional directionals display a remarkable variety of forms
They are semantically and morphologically highly complex
They, as well as other types of directionals, are highly abundant in discourse
Specification of directions and locations is a hallmark of UKA ethnic cognitive representation and constitutes an important linguistic phenomenon in this language
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Methodological comments
This kind of complex phenomena must be preferably explored with the help of best available consultants
Criteria: age; personal life experience; gender; general intelligence
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Bobby Esai
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Nick Alexia
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TsenŒan! Thanks to all speakers of Upper Kuskokwim,
both mentioned and unmentioned above Thanks to many individuals and
organizations that helped to collect and process the data, in chronological order: Michael Krauss James Kari Raymond Collins Alaska Native Language Center Fulbright Program Endangered Language Fund Bernard Comrie MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Russian Foundation for the Humanities National Science Foundation
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