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This Comanche dictionary is based on research drawn from the files of the late Eliot Canonge which he initiated in the early 1940s under the auspices of SIL International. Dr. Robinson has rescued and enhanced this important body of data which spans traditional and contemporary varieties of Comanche speech styles and four geographically identifiable dialects. The Comanche-English section of the work, with over 5,500 entries, constitutes the central portion of the dictionary, but an English-Comanche section indexes Comanche entries to aid in locating Comanche forms from the point of view of their English equivalents. In turn, Dr. Armagost’s provision of an introductory exploration of Comanche morphology and syntax further enhances this volume as an important contribution to our knowledge of this branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages.
This second edition has been improved for user-friendliness, especially in the English-Comanche section, making it much easier to find a Comanche equivalent of an English term.
Lila Wistrand-Robinson has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin and served several years with SIL International in Peru. Her research was published in the book, Cashibo Folklore and Culture: Prose, Poetry, and Historical Background (SIL International Publications, 1998). She has also published an Iowa/Otoe–English dictionary and taught Linguistics and Anthropology at Kansas State University.
James Armagost has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Washington. He has taught Comanche and other subjects at Kansas State University until retiring in 2001. He is the author of multiple papers on Comanche.
Dedication Acknowledgments Preface Abbreviations
Introduction Guide to Pronunciation Dictionary Appendix A: Fauna Appendix B: Flora Appendix C: Body parts Appendix D: Months of the year Appendix E: Personal names
1.1 Consonants 1.2 Vowels 1.3 Stress rules
2.1 Declarative mood 2.2 Nonverbal sentences 2.3 Intransitive sentences 2.4 Transitive sentences 2.5 HAVE sentences 2.6 DO sentences
3.1 Yes/No questions 3.2 Alternative questions 3.3 Information questions
4.1 Positive imperative 4.2 Hortatory
5.1 Affirmation 5.2 Negation
7.1 Unspecified subject 7.2 Unspecified object 7.3 Reflexive/Passive 7.4 Reciprocal
8.1 Noun morphology 8.2 Verb morphology 8.3 Adjective morphology
9.1 Absolutive 9.2 Dual and plural pumber 9.3 Accusative 9.4 Genitive 9.5 Vocative
10.1 Locative 10.2 Allative 10.3 Instrumental 10.4 Partitive 10.5 Miscellaneous 10.6 Ordering
11.1 Demonstrative adjectives 11.2 Nonnumeric quantifiers 11.3 Numerals
12.1 Nominative pronouns 12.2 Accusative pronouns 12.3 Genitive pronouns 12.4 Coreferential pronouns
13.1 Stems 13.2 Instrumental prefixes 13.3 Temporal prefixes 13.4 Number agreement 13.5 Causative/Benefactive 13.6 Motion 13.7 Aspect
14.1 Temporal adverbs 14.2 Locative adverbs 14.3 Directional adverbs 14.4 Demonstrative adverbs
15.1 Coordination 15.2 Complement clauses 15.3 Relative clauses
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