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Prosodically Driven Metathesis in Mutsun
No full textAmong the many ways in which sounds alternate in the world's languages, changes in the order of sounds (metathesis) are relatively rare. Mutsun, a Southern Costanoan language of California which was documented extensively before the death of its last speaker in 1930, displays three patterns of synchronic consonant-vowel (CV) metathesis. Two of these patterns appear to have remained productive while the language was actively spoken. In stem-deriving metathesis, many disyllabic noun stems ending in a VC string (as well as a few trisyllabic noun stems) alternate with semantically related verb stems ending in a CV string: e.g.,cayic ‘strength’ ~ cayci ‘to be strong’. In reflexive metathesis, a subset of verb stems, which are normally vowel-final in all environments, surface in consonant-final form in the presence of the reflexive suffix –pu and/or the reciprocal suffix -mu, as in kitro ‘to dress, to clothe’ ~ kitorpu ‘to get dressed, to dress oneself’. Finally, in suffix metathesis, the plural and locative suffixes (as well as the desiderative/irrealis enclitic) alternate between CCV and CVC forms depending on whether the preceding stem ends in a consonant or a vowel. Based on data from a large corpus of archival records of the language compiled over a span of more than a century, all three patterns of metathesis in Mutsun appear to defy the types of phonological analysis that have been proposed in the literature to account for metathesis in a variety of other languages. The phonetic and phonological factors claimed to motivate metathesis in other languages, such as misinterpretation of acoustic cues, stress attraction, sonority hierarchies, and positional restrictions, are absent in Mutsun. In this dissertation, I argue that prosodic analyses based on syllable weight and prosodic templates are required to account for Mutsun metathesis. Mutsun stem metathesis in particular has less in common, morphophonologically speaking, with metathesis in other languages than it does with reduplication or templatic morphology
Mutsun-English English-Mutsun Dictionary / mutsun-inkiS inkiS-mutsun riica pappel
No full textMutsun is a Costanoan language (part of the Utian language family) from California in the area around the modern towns of San Juan Bautista, Hollister, and Gilroy. The last fluent speaker of Mutsun, Mrs. Ascension Solarsano, died in 1930. Because of her work and the work of earlier native Mutsun speakers with early linguists, there is a large written corpus of Mutsun. This dictionary was compiled by analyzing that documentation. The dictionary is written to be useful both for language revitalization and for linguistic research. This PDF was downloaded from the Language Documentation & Conservation journal website at the request of the author, Natasha Warner. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2467
mutsun-inkiS inkiS-mutsun riica pappel
No full textMutsun is a Costanoan language (part of the Utian language family) from California in the area around the modern towns of San Juan Bautista, Hollister, and Gilroy. The last fluent speaker of Mutsun, Mrs. Ascension Solarsano, died in 1930. Because of her work and the work of earlier native Mutsun speakers with early linguists, there is a large written corpus of Mutsun. This dictionary was compiled by analyzing that documentation. The dictionary is written to be useful both for language revitalization and for linguistic research.National Foreign Language Resource Center and University of Hawai‘i Pres
Creating learning materials and teaching materials for language revitalization: The case of Mutsun
No full textEthics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language
No full textLanguage revitalization (either increasing the use of an endangered language or bringing back a language with no speakers) brings up many ethical issues, beginning with whether it is even legitimate to attempt such revitalization. Language communities and linguists must address these issues if revitalization is to succeed in any of its goals. In this paper, we discuss the ethical issues we have encountered and the choices we have made about them during revitalization work with the Mutsun language (a dormant Costanoan language of California). We argue that language revitalization is a useful and legitimate application of linguistic knowledge.National Foreign Language Resource Cente
Mutsun Text Collection: mutsun riicakma hummen
No full textThe version available through the University of Arizona Library is publicly accessible, and can be used by either Mutsun community members or members of the general public. A version containing a small number of additional entries that contain culturally protected information is available only to community members through the California Language Archive.This collection includes all of the known texts written down in the Mutsun language (Costanoan language family of California, ISO code: css), along with our own translations of the texts and analyses of all the words and sentences. Mutsun is a Native American language that was historically spoken in the area including the San Juan Bautista Mission and the locations of modern Gilroy and Hollister. The last fluent first-language speaker, Doña Ascension Solarsano, passed away in 1930. There are a large quantity of written materials documenting the language, stretching from 1807 to 1930 in time. This text collection includes a typed version of how the original source transcribed the material as well as what translation the original source gave, information about where in the sources each entry occurs, and our analysis of the texts, as well as conversion to the practical orthography in use in the community. The materials are intended for community members who wish to learn the language from sentences that fluent speakers said, as well as for others wishing to study the materials.If you wish to cite this material or use it for additional analyses or publications, please attempt to contact a member of the Mutsun community, starting with co-author Quirina Geary ([email protected]). This is not for permission, but to keep the community informed of what is being published about them
Mutsun Text Collection - 21 - Arroyo\u27s Vocabulario de Mutsun\u27 Corpus
No full textContent: 2909 entries, Arroyo’s sentence list (approximately 1807-1815, more than a century before Harrington’s work with Mutsun, and in the Mission context). Many entries are short phrases of an everyday nature; some entries are names of Tribes and peoples; various words for actions (verbs); many phrases include questions (interrogatives), commands (imperatives), or simple statements (declaratives); names for plants, seeds, edible roots, and herbs; words for body parts; names for birds and other animals; words for foods and types of food made from acorns; some terms for baskets; short sentences about states of emotion; sentences that mention water and the movements of types of bodies of water; kinship terms; descriptive phrases (to be thick/thin/muddy/dry, to be fat/skinny/white/small etc.); words and phrases that refer to illness or injury; many phrases include reference to fire or firewood, being cold or being warmed by a fire
Mutsun Text Collection - 17 - Reel 63
No full textContent: 214 entries. Harrington’s Mutsun notes/rehearings added to his notes about various other nearby languages, including Rumsen. Statements and command phrases for various actions (declarative and imperatives), various forms of words for actions (verbs); phrases describing someone or something; some words for animals, birds, insects, and parts of plants/trees; weather and weather-related phenomena; sickness, pains, and illnesses; various words
