{ "item_title" : "A Grammatical Study of Innu-Aimun Particles", "item_author" : [" Will Oxford "], "item_description" : "In the grammars that have been written of the languages of the Algonquian family, particles (as indeclinables) are generally given short shrift. Even accounts that go beyond mere lists tend to be limited to rough glosses and anecdotal comments on usage; explicit analyses of the thorny problems which particles present, here as in many other languages, are few and far between. Oxford's pioneering work on the highly diverse category of PARTICLES in Innu-aimun (spoken in Qu bec and Labrador and previously known as Montagnais-Naskapi) is the first attempt ever at a comprehensive treament of this complex set of data. He identifies a number of clearly defined subcategories on the basis of their syntactic, semantic and discourse properties: adnominals (adjectivals and classifiers), prepositions, adverbs, focus particles, question particles, negators, conjunctions and interjections. (Going beyond indeclinables, he also discusses pronouns, indefinites, demonstratives and locative-inflected nouns. which have certain properties in common with particles.) This is a rich and compelling work, as firm in its empirical grounding as it is elegant in its theoretical treatment. Basing his analysis on field work with a number of Innu-aimun speakers in Labrador and drawing, in addition, on the rich resources of the Labrador Innu Text Project (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Oxford offers and admirable level of illustration and documentation to support his analysis.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/92/106/420/0921064209_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "40.00", "online_price" : "40.00", "our_price" : "40.00", "club_price" : "40.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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