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The Southern Sierra Miwok Language (1964), by Sylvia M. Broadbent

• Title, publication, and dedication pages
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Signs and Symbols
  
• Chapter 1: Phonology (pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
  
• Table 1: Consonantal Allophony (page 22)
• Table 2: Vocalic Allophony (page 23)
• Table 3: Distribution of Consonants (pages 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
• Table 4: Consonants before Vowels (pages 28, 29, 30)
• Table 5: Consonants after Vowels (pages 30, 31, 32)
  
• Chapter 2: Morphemics (pages 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
• Chapter 3: Final Suffixes (pages 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
• Chapter 4: Verbal Themes (pages 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63)
• Chapter 5: Verbal Suffixes (pages 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88)
• Chapter 6: Nominal Themes (pages 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95)
• Chapter 7: Nominal Suffixes (pages 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124)
• Chapter 8: Postfixes (pages 125, 126, 127, 128, 129)
• Chapter 9: Syntax (pages 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139)
  
• Texts
  • 1. Collecting Basketry Materials (Pages 142-145)
  • 2. Gathering Wild Foods (Pages 146-151)
  • 3. Wild Foods (Pages 152-159)
  • 4. Measuring Worm (Pages 160-161)
  • 5. The Magic Cane (Pages 162-167)
  • 6. How Coyote Stole the Sun (Pages 168-171)
  • 7. ?ywel•in [man-eating giant] (Pages 172-175)
  • 8-9. Stealing Horses & Two Little Bears and Two Little Deer (Pages 176-177)
  • 10. Chasing Wild Horses and Mules (Pages 178-179)
  • 11. Horse, Ox, and Alligator (Pages 180-181)
  • 12. Talking Ghosts (Pages 182-185)
  • 13. The Black Horse (Pages 186-187)
  • 14. Coyote and Water Ouzel (Pages 188-195)
  • 15. Coyote, Duck, and Mole (Pages 196-207)
  • 16. Chief Tenaya (Pages 208-209)
  
  
• Plates

About the Author

Castro Johnson, Charlie Rohan, and Sylvia M. Broadbent. (p. 214)

• Obituary, Sylvia Marguerite Broadbent (1932 - 2015)

The Southern Sierra Miwok lived in Yosemite Valley, Mariposa, and the surrounding foothills. [Map.]

Bibliographical Information

Sylvia Marguerite Broadbent (1932-2015), The Southern Sierra Miwok Language, University of California Publications in Linguistics, v. 38 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964). 355pp. 26cm. LCCN 65-063429. Library of Congress Call Number P25 .C25 vol. 38. Short citation: UCPL 38. Based on her Ph.D. dissertation, A Grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok (1960). SIL Ethnologue language code: SKD.

Reviews:

• Hamp, Eric P., “On Two Californian Grammars,” International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 32:176-88 (1966).
• Hamp, Eric P., “Studies in Sierra Miwok,” IJAL 32:236-41 (1966).
• Rigsby, Bruce, “Review of The Southern Sierra Miwok Language by S. M. Broadbent,” American Anthropologist 67:1596-7. by
• Hill, Jane H., “Review of The Southern Sierra Miwok Language, by Sylvia Broadbent.” Language 44:181-185 (1968).

An additional glossary with Southern Sierra Miwok texts is available in Howard Berman ed. Freeland’s Central Sierra Miwok Myths, Report #3 Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (Berkeley: UC press, 1982). See also Craig D. Bates The Miwok in Yosemite - Southern Miwok Life, History, and Language in the Yosemite (Yosemite Association, 1996) for more Southern Sierra Miwok texts.

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