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A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee
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Language Name
Pawnee.
Alternate Language Names
We are unaware of any alternate language names.
Region
Oklahoma, United States.
Who
Douglas R. Parks (Compiler); Lula Nora Pratt (Speaker).
Others Involved
Sam Allen, Gerty Clark, Albin Leading Fox, Harry Mad Bear, Mary Moore, Henry Roberts (Speakers); Roberta Gardipe, Thomasine Neff, Douglas Tilden, Willard Pratt, Charles "Buddy" Lone Chief, Adam Pratt, Virginia Moore, George Roberts, Philip Gover, Ben Goose, Tom Evans, Zella Little Sun, Joanne Spotted Horse, Jim Good Tracks, Marshall Gover, Robert Chapman, Elizabeth Black Owl, James P. Reimer, Mary Jo Couri, May Beagle (Community Support); Brian Gygi, Wallace "Wally" E. Hooper, Francis Flavin, Helen Chen, Travis Myers (Database Application); Jordan Goffin, Jon Bowman, Nicole Evans, Amber L. Gallup, Rebecca Hill, Tim Howington, Noah Silbert, Walter Wells, Patrick Feaster (Audio Work); William Anderson (Technical Editor); the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (Funding).
Publishing Information
Published 2008 by University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University, Lincoln, Nebraska.
This is the first of two volumes. The second volume is a grammar of Pawnee.
How People are Cited
People are cited in the Acknowledgements.
How Information is Cited
Speakers, both those that worked directly with the compiler and those who worked in language documentation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are cited by name in the Acknowledgements. Previously published materials are cited in the Bibliography.
Where is Information Coming from
Information in this dictionary comes from speakers, both those that worked directly with the compiler and those who worked in language documentation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as cited in the Acknowledgements. Speaker Roaming Scout worked with James R. Murie and George A. Dorsey to document Pawnee life and religion in the nineteenth century. Roaming Scout recorded many texts on wax cylinders which were then transcribed into texts by Murie (a Pawnee speaker and Dorsey's assistant) and later emended by Dorsey (an anthropologist). This language data was utilized by the compiler of this dictionary. This dictionary also used previously published works as listed in the Bibliography.
Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is available as a physical book.
Access
This dictionary is accessible through libraries. It is also available for purchase for US$85 from the University of Nebraska Press.
Included Languages and Directionality
English to Pawnee; Pawnee to English.
Dialects Included
This dictionary includes information from the Skiri dialect of Pawnee.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, bidirectional dictionary.
How are Entries Organised
Entries are organised alphabetically by English in the first dictionary section, English to Skiri Pawnee, and they include the English headword, Pawnee translation, phonetic rendition, part of speech, English gloss of the Pawnee translation, parts of the Pawnee word, and a literal English translation. Many entries also include information on the grammatical form, derivation and etymology, and cross references. Verb entries contain information about inflected forms. For many entries in this section of the dictionary, there are more than one Pawnee translation for the English headword. Each Pawnee translation is listed as its own subentry (containing most, if not all, of the information listed above) below the English headword. Entries are organised alphabetically by Pawnee (according to the alphabet listed on p. 15) in the Skiri Pawnee to English section of the dictionary. Entries include all the same information as those in the first dictionary section. However, these entries do not have subentries; each Pawnee word is its own individual entry.
Prior to the dictionary sections, the Introduction includes information about the background and history of the Pawnee people and language, a description of the Pawnee sound system and alphabet, an explanation of major sound changes that occur when putting Pawnee morphemes together to form words, and a grammatical overview. The Grammatical Overview includes information on the parts of speech (e.g., nouns and verbs), stems, and affixes.
Following the dictionary, there are several appendices. The first discusses verb conjugations, the second discusses verb roots with irregular plural forms, and the third discusses kinship terminology.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
|---|---|---|
| Guide to use and understand | ✅ | In the section Organization of the Dictionary, and a description of abbreviations in Abbreviations |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ❌ | |
| Speakers marked | ❌ | |
| Dialects marked | ❌ | Only one dialect included |
External Links
Reference on WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/title/312984584
Purchase from the University of Nebraska Press for US$85: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803219267/
A review (2017) by Armik Mirzayan in International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 83, No. 2 (requires institutional login or a subscription to the website): https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/689912