A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language

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CONTENTS TABLES & FIGURES vi PREFACE vii USER'S GUIDE xv 1. THE TIMUCUA LANGUAGE Location & Brief History 1 Dialects 6 Archaeological Correlates 11 Linguistic Components of Timucua & Their Origins 14 Interpretation of the Data 41 2. TIMUCUA GRAMMAR Orthography & Phonology 63 Phonological Processes 68 Morphemic Classes 76 Morphotactics 81 Pronouns 83 Nouns 86 Morphemic Verbs 88 Periphrastic Verbs 100 Particles 102 Morphemic Transformations 103 Syntax 105 3. TIMUCUA-ENGLISH DICTIONARY 113 4. ENGLISH-TIMUCUA INDEX 181 S. INDEX OF AFFIXES & AFFIX COMBINATIONS Prefixes 243 Prefix Combinations 243 Suffixes 243 Frequent Suffix Combinations 246 Enclitics 248 6. FORMS CITED FROM OTHER LANGUAGES General Alphabetical Listing 251 Alphabetical Listing by Language 261 BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 v TABLES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Orthography & Reconstituted Phonemes Tribal Units, Status, & Location Dialects & Tribal/Political Units Dialect Forms Nominal Suffixes: Timucua/Warao Possessive Affixes: Timucua/Warao Verbal Affixes: Timucua/Warao Timucua Pronouns Timucua-Warao Lexical Parallels Timucua-Chibchan Lexical Parallels Timucua-Tucanoan Lexical Parallels Timucua-Arawakan Lexical Parallels Multiple-Resemblance Forms Timucua-Muskogean Lexical Parallels Regressive Substitutions Non-Regressive Substitutions Affixes Independent Pronouns Verb Pronominal Prefixes Noun Possessive Pronominal Suffixes Noun Plural Possessive Verbal Expressions Morphemic Noun Matrix Morphemic Verb Matrix xxii-xxiii 3-4 7 9-11 18 18 20 30 32 33 33 35-36 37 40-41 70-71 74 79-80 84 85 8S 86 87 91 FIGURES 1. Timucua Political & Dialect Boundaries ca. 1600 A.D. 5 2. Probable Epicenter of Timucua Origins ca. 2,000 B.C. 44 3. Possible Timucua Trade Routes ca. 1,800 B.C. 58 4. Verb Locus Matrix 97 vi ...