TY - BOOK ID - 5535824 TI - Ute reference grammar PY - 2011 SN - 9789027202857 9789027202840 9027202842 9027202850 9789027287410 9027287414 1283122081 9786613122087 9781283122085 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Ute language KW - Ute (Langue) KW - Grammar KW - Grammaire KW - Paiute Indians. KW - Southern Paiute language. KW - Ute language -- Grammar. KW - Ute language. KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Native American & Hyperborean Languages KW - Grammar. KW - Uta language KW - Yuta language KW - Numic languages UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5535824 AB - Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster of intriguing features, best viewed from the perspective of diachronic change and grammaticalization. The book presents a comprehensive synchronic description of grammatical structures and their communicative functions, as well as a diachronic account of a grammar in the midst of c ER -