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A Practical Grammar of the
St. Lawrence Island / Siberian
Yupik Eskimo Language
Second Edition
Steven A. Jacobson
Alaska Native Language Center
College of Liberal Arts
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
2001
Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Chapter 1
Yupik sounds and spelling; Consonants; Vowels; Fricative (and nasal)
undoubling or automatic devoicing; Stress, rhythmic length, and
overlength; Syllabification
1
Chapter 2
Words and bases; Formation of unpossessed plural and dual
Absolutive case; Conventional duals and plurals
11
Chapter 3
Intransitive Indicative mood; Unpossessed Ablative-modalis case
17
Chapter 4
1st and 2nd person possessor possessed Absolutive case
23
Chapter 5
Unpossessed Localis, Terminalis, Vialis, and Equalis cases
29
Chapter 6
3rd person possessor possessed Absolutive case; Unpossessed Relative
case
35
Chapter 7
Transitive Indicative mood; Possessed Relative case; Comparison of
verb and noun endings; Possessed Ablative-modalis, Localis, etc. cases
41
Chapter 8
2nd person subject Interrogative mood; Interrogative words; 4th person
vs. 3rd person
49
Chapter 9
Compound-verbal postbases; Optional impersonal agent verbs; 3rd
person subject Interrogative mood; More interrogative words
57
Chapter 10
2nd person subject Optative mood, and non-singular 1st person subject
Optative mood
63
Chapter 11
Participial mood
69
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Practical Grammar of Siberian Yupik Eskimo
Chapter 12
Postural Roots; Quantifier-qualifier; Contractions formed with the
obsolete verb base meaning "to be"
75
Chapter 13
Emotional roots; Independent vs. dependent verb moods; Precessive
mood; Concessive mood
81
Chapter 14
Consequential mood; Contingent mood; Conditional
Contemporative mood
89
mood;
Chapter 15
Intransitive-only, transitive-only, agentive and patientive verb bases;
"Half-transitive" postbase; Subordinative mood
95
Chapter 16
Demonstrative pronouns and adverbs; Personal pronouns
107
Chapter 17
1st person subject and 3rd person subject Optative mood; verbs used as
nouns in oblique cases; future optatives; Participial-oblique mood;
Yupik numerals
115
Chapter 18
Positional bases; Chukchi and other loans words in Yupik;
Miscellaneous grammatical points; Kinship terms; Cyrillic orthography
for Yupik
125
Annotated Traditional Yupik Stories
Meteghlluk; Qateghyiighaghhaq; Kiiluuq; Meteghllugllagenkuk
Anipaghllagenkuk; Aghnaghaghyaget; Naten Teghigatlu Qawaagetlu
Uutghusimaatgu Siqineq; Iiyaghhiinalek; Yuuk Nuliilek; YMMJiry
(Umiilgu)
139
Appendix I
Noun case and verb mood endings
165
Appendix II
Inflection of Demonstratives
173
Appendix III
Personal Pronouns
176
Appendix rV
Summary of ways base-final te is affected by suffixes
177
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Contents
Yupik-to-English Vocabulary — Bases
179
Yupik-to-English Vocabulary — Postbases and Enclitics
189
English-to-Yupik Vocabulary
193
Subject index
208
Bibliography
212
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