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Bloomington, Indiana University, 1974. — 134 p.
As declared in the Preface Voorhis’ book is an old-style grammar, i.e. accessible to everybody. Kickapoo is spoken by a few hundred people in Nacimiento (El Nacimiento), Coahuila, Mexico, and between Shawnee and Jones in Oklahoma, United States. Kickapoo is an Algonkian (Algonquian) language quite close to Sauk and Mesquakie (Fox). Some linguists consider Kickapoo, Sauk and Mesquakie (Sac and Fox) as dialects of the same language because there is a good mutual intellegibility.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE KICKAPOO LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTER FOR THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES INDIANA UNIVERSITY Thomas A. Sebeok Chairman Andrew Vizsonyi Associate Chairman, Publications Paul H. Voorhis INTRODUCTION TO THE KICKAPOO LANGUAGE Published by INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON INDIANA UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS LANGUAGE SCIENCE MONOGRAPHS Editor: C. F. Voegelin Volume 13 Copyright O 1974 by Indiana University All rights reserved ISBN 87750-177-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 736 20165 All orders from the United States of America and from Canada should be sent to Humanities Press, Inc., Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 07716. Orders from all other countries should be sent to CO-libri, P.O. Box 482, The Hague 2076, The Netherlands. Printed in the United States of America CON TENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Acknowledgments Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1. Pronunciation: Vowels and Consonants 2. Syllables 3. Pronunciation: Accent and Punctuation 4 . Soundchanges . . . . . . . 5 . Sentences: Accent. Punctuation. and Sound Changes 6 . Inflexion 7. Nouns . . . . . . 14 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 10. Relative Words 11. Verbs ; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. Irregular Nouns 9. Pronouns vii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 12. Verbs: The Independent Modes 13. Verbs: The Conjunct Modes 14 . Verbs: Conjunc t Participles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 15. Verbs: The Interrogative Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 16. Verbs: Interrogative Participles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 . . . . . . . . . 98 17. Verbs: The Potential and Prohibitive Modes l 8. Verbs: The Imperative Mode 19. Verbs: The Attributive 20. Irregular Verbs 21 . Particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 l This is an old-style grammar. In recent years, several new ways of writing grammars have been proposed, and it has been claimed that certain facts of a language cannot be presented elegantly, and that other facts cannot be presented at all, or only with great difficulty, when the older methods of grammatical description are used. Accordingly, the reader may w