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The Language of Santa Ana Pueblo
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Language Name
Keres.
Alternate Language Names
Queres.
Region
New Mexico, United States.
Who
Irvine Davis.
Others Involved
Stanley Newman (Supervisor); Unnamed Male Speaker (Primary Consultant).
Publishing Information
Published 1964, by the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 191, in Anthropological Papers, No. 69.
Data was collected between 1954 and 1961.
How People are Cited
People are cited in the brief Preface to the volume. The speaker primary consultant is acknowledged and thanked in this section, but remains unnamed.
How Information is Cited
Previously published sources are cited in the Literature Cited section, and the consultant speaker is cited in the Preface.
Where is information Coming from
Information in this volume primarily comes from a single unnamed mid-aged male speaker.
Four previously published sources are cited in the Literature Cited section. These sources include three Acoma resources from Wick R Miller: Some notes on Acoma kinship terminology (1959), Spanish loanwords in Acoma: I, and Spanish loanwords in Acoma: II (1960). Essays in linguistics (1957) by Joseph H. Greenberg is also cited.
Tools and Framework used
This resource is available as a physical and digital dictionary.
It is primarily a linguistic grammar, but includes Vocabulary appendix.
Access
The physical book version of this dictionary is accesible through libraries. The digital book is open access through the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives and is accesible through some libraries.
Included Languages and Directionality
Keres to English, followed by an English to Keres index.
Dialects Included
The dialect included in this dictionary is Santa Ana Pueblo Keres. It is mostly based on the dialect of one speaker.
Type of Dictionary
This is a descriptive grammar which includes a Vocabulary appendix. The Vocabulary appendix is a bilingual, mono-directional wordlist.
How are entries organised
All entries in the Vocabulary list are numbered and sorted alphabetically by Keres. Entries include the Keres headword and the English translation. Verbs are listed alphabetically under their "verb core". The Vocabulary section (Appendix 3) is divided into Uninflected Words, Verbs, Affixes and Clitics, and Loanwords.
An English to Keres Index to Vocabulary is included after the main Keres to English Vocabulary section. This section includes only the English headwords, and the reference number for the corresponding Keres entry in the main Vocabulary section.
Verb paradigms are included in Appendix 1.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
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| Guide to use and understand | ❌ | |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ❌ | Stories with morphological breakdown are provided in the Texts section, but the entries do not have example sentences |
| Speakers marked | ❌ | |
| Dialects marked | ❌ | The entire volume is of the Santa Ana Pueblo dialect |
External Links
Reference on WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/3303335
Open Access through the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/22130/bae_bulletin_191_1964_69_53-190.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y