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A Grammar and Dictionary of Tutelo
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Language Name
Tutelo.
Alternate Language Names
Tutelo-Saponi, Yesá:sahį́.
Region
Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina, United States; Ontario, Canada.
Who
Giulia Oliverio.
Others Involved
Robert L. Rankin (Thesis Adviser); Akira Yamamoto, David Dinneen, Sara Rosen, Kenneth Miner (General Support); William Sturtevant (Thesis Committee); Marianne Mithun, Dale Nicklas (Language Support); Michael Henderson, Julie Bergstrom (Computational Support); the University of Kansas, the Smithsonian Institution, the Whatcom Museum Society (Financial Support).
Publishing Information
Published in 1996 by the University of Kansas as part of a Ph.D. thesis. It was digitized in 1997 by UMI Microform.
How People are Cited
People are cited in the Acknowledgements section of the thesis.
How Information is Cited
Previously documented and/or published materials are cited in Chapter 2: Sources and in the References section.
Where is Information Coming from
Information in this resource comes from a corpus of all available previously documented and/or published language materials. A detailed description of each of the sources is given in Chapter 2: Sources. These descriptions include information about the linguist/language documenter, any speakers identified in these works, and a description of the written/published work. Overall, this resource utilized works throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries from roughly a dozen different language documenters and several public linguistic records. This resource also contains a condensed list of sources in the Resources section.
Tools and Framework used
This resource is available as both a physical and digital book.
Access
The physical book is accessible through select libraries. The digital book is available open access through Swiss Bay.
Included Languages and Directionality
Tutelo to English; English to Tutelo.
Dialects Included
No dialect is specified for this dictionary.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, bidirectional dictionary introduced by a thorough grammar.
How are Entries Organised
Entries are organized alphabetically by Tutelo in the Tutelo-English Dictionary. Entries include the Tutelo headword, the English translation/equivalent, the part of speech, variations, and cross references. Variations are forms documented by linguists and language documenters that differ from the general consensus found in the corpus. These variations are written in the transcription system used by that linguist/language documenter, and they are cited by the initials of the one who documented the term. Many entries also include cognates from other Siouan languages as well as Catawba. The included cognates are marked by the language name. Cognates from Ofo and Biloxi (the languages most closely related to Tutelo), are always given if available. Other cognates from Siouan languages are given when none is clear in Ofo or Biloxi and/or when the forms in other languages help explain the Tutelo forms. The sources from which the author took the cognates are listed in the introduction to the dictionary section.
Entries are organized alphabetically by English in the English-Tutelo Index and include the English headword and the Tutelo translation. No other information is included in these entries.
Following the dictionary section there are two other appendices: Appendix 2: Active/Stative Verb List and Appendix 3: Unidentifiable Tutelo Data. Entries in Appendix 2 include all verbs with a known type (i.e., active or stative). They are listed by type and alphabetically by Tutelo within each type. They include the Tutelo headword and the English translation. Entries in Appendix 3 includes unsegmentable forms and those with no known meaning. Entries in this appendix are grouped topically. Topics include personal and place names, phrases/sentences, and songs. Entries are listed alphabetically by Tutelo within most topics (excluding songs) and include the Tutelo headword/phrase, the English translation (if known), variations of the Tutelo, and any comments made by linguists or language documenters about the term. The songs are introduced by who documented the song and the singer/speaker-source and include the title of the song, the Tutelo lyrics, and the English meaning (if known).
The grammar that precedes the dictionary includes copious information on the phonology (i.e., the sound system), morphology (i.e., parts of speech), and syntax (i.e., sentence structure) of Tutelo.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
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| Guide to use and understand | ✅ | At the beginning of Appendix 1: Tutelo Dictionary |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ❌ | |
| Speakers marked | ❌ | Linguists are sourced by their initials within entries |
| Dialects marked | ❌ | No dialect is specified |
External Links
Reference A Grammar and Dictionary of Tutelo on WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/title/150640885
Access the open access, digitized version of this dictionary on Swiss Bay: https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/North%20American/Siouan%20%26%20Caddoan/Tutelo%2C%20A%20Grammar%20and%20Dictionary%20of%20%28Oliverio%29.pdf