Table of Contents
Preface Map of Central Yup’ik with Dialect Areas Chapter 1: Yup’ik phonology and orthography Chapter 2: Intransitive Indicative Verbs; Yes-No Questions Chapter 3: Absolutive Case as Subject of Intransitive Verb; Ablative-Modalis Case as Indefinite Object of Intransitive Verb; Ablative-Modalis of Place from Which and of Specification Chapter 4: Formation of Absolutive Plural and Dual; Terminalis Case for Place to Which; Localis Case for Place at Which; Preview of Content Questions and the Interrogative Mood Chapter 5: Possessed Absolutive Case with First and Second Person Possessor; Preview of the Optative Mood Chapter 6: Vialis case; Equalis Case; Overview of Demonstrative Pronouns and Adverbs and First Group of These to be Memorized (Others distributed through later chapters) Chapter 7: Possessed Absolutive with Third Person Possessor; Unpossessed Relative and its use and Possessor; Third Person Possessor Oblique Cases; Positional Bases; Second Terminalis Chapter 8: Transitive Indicative Verbs with Third Person Objective and any Subject; Transitive vs. Intransitive and Related Case Assignments: Agentive vs. Patientive Verbs and the “half-transitive” Postbase; Fourth Person Absolutive Objects; Further Preview of the Optative. Chapter 9: Ablative-modalis with Verbs of Giving and with Verbs of Communicating; Transitive Indicative with Third Person Subject and First or Second Person Objects; Possessed Relative with First or Second Person Possessor; Possessed Oblique Cases with First or Second Person Possessor; Impersonal Subject Verbs. Chapter 10: Third Person Possessed Relative; Transitive Indicative First to Second Person and Second to First Person; Fourth Person Possessed Relative; The “V for, with, to’ Postbase; Adverbial and Exclamatory Particles; The Exclamation Forming Suffix” Chapter 11: Interrogative Mood; Basic Numerals; Days of the Week; (ar)-deletion Chapter 12: Second Person Subject Optative (commands); First Person Non-Singular Intransitive Optative (suggestions); Verbalizing Postbases for Demonstrative Adverbs; ‘be in a state of having V-ed’ Postbase Review for Chapters 2-12 Chapter 13: Seasons of the Year; Absolutive for Time; Independent vs. Dependent Verb Moods; Subordinative Mood Chapter 14: Adjective Equivalents; Color Words; Relative Clause Equivalents; Comparatives; Localis with Comparatives Chapter 15: Dependent Moods not Subject to the Constraints on the Subordinative; Precessive Mood; Consequential Mood; Third Person vs. Fourth Person Subjects and Objects Chapter 16: Contingent Mood; Concessive Mood; Conditional Mood; Contrafactual Conditionals Chapter 17: First Contemporative Mood; Second Contemporative Mood Chapter 18: Compound-Verbal Postbases; Terminalis as Subject of Embedded Transitive Verb; The Observational Construction Review for Chapters 13-18 Chapter 19: Quantifier / Qualifier Construction; Postural Roots; Emotional Roots; Dimensional Roots; Verbs Used Directly as Nouns; Dependents vs. Autonomous Subordinative Chapter 20: Transitive Interrogative with Non-Singular Subjects; Postbases for ‘Condition with respect to V-ing,’ ‘the way to V,’ ‘the act, activity or state of V-ing” Chapter 21: Participial Mood; More on the Observational Construction; Personal Pronouns; Postbases that go on Verbs and Apply to the Subject; Exclamation Formation with the Interrogative Chapter 22: Optative with First Person and Third Person Subjects; Various Irregularly Suffixing Postbase; Sentence Constructions with Two Independents Verbs. Chapter 23: Numerals; Ordinal Numerals; Numerals of Repetition; Money; Time; Kinship Terms Chapter 24: Duals; Place Names; Personal Names; Loan Words from Russian and Other Languages in You’ik; Use of English Words in Yup’ik; Coining of New Yup’ik Words; Yup’ik Dialects; Old Writing Systems for Yuk’ik Supplementary Readings Appendices: Tables of Endings; Noun Paradigms; Verb Paradigms; Inflection of Demonstratives Yup’ik-to-English Vocabulary Yup’ik-to-English Postbases and Enclitics English-to-Yup’ik Vocabulary Subject Index Bibliography Addenda to 2000 printing: Supplementary Exercises: Bibliography of Newly Published Materials in Central Yup’ik.
