A PRACTICAL GRAMMAR OF THE CENTRAL ALASKAN YUPIK ESKIMO LANGUAGE Steven A. Jacobson with Yup’ik readings written by Anna W. Jacobson Alaska Native Language Center and Program University of Alaska Fairbanks 1995& Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo Language Steven A. Jacobson with Yup'ik readings written by Anna W. Jacobson © 1995 Alaska Native Language Center Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Jacobson, Steven A. A practical grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo language/ Steven A. Jacobson ; with Yup'ik readings written by Anna W. Jacsbans, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55500-050-9 j; Central Yup'ik language — Grammar. I. Jacobson, Anna W., 1944— Il, Title. PM87.J33_ 1995 497'.1—de20 94-16979 CIP Exont cover: George Chimugak and James Charlie of Toksook Bay seal hunting off Nelson Island, 1980. Photo by James H. Barker. Back cover: Illustrations reproduced from E.W. Nelson’s The Eskimo About Bering Strait, published in 1899 (reprinted 1983) by the Smithsonian Inctiteeny, (aluyag, fish trap, pl. LXX: 12; yaaruin, story knife, pl. XCIV: 3). First printing 1995 800 copies Second printing, with corrections, 1997 500 copies Third printing, with corrections and addenda, 2000 800 copies Address correspondence to: Alaska Native Language Center University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757680 Fairbanks, AK 99775-7680 15's, the policy of the University of Alaska to provide equal education and employment opportunities and natoal ceimtices and benefits to all students and employees without regard to race color religent saeearein, 8, age, disability, status as.a Vietnam era or disabled veteran, marital status, chance inanstital status, pregnancy, or parenthood, pursuant to laws enforced by the Department of Education vad {the Department of Labor, including Presidential Executive Order 11246, amended, Title Viana Tin ait ore 1964 Civil Rights Act, Tite IX ofthe Education Amendments of 1972, the Public Health Sarues Aer Sex Discrimination Guidelines, and Alaska Statutes 18.60,010 et seq.,and 1418 0lUetaea and 6 ae Ong niece niuiries regarding application of these and other rogulations should be direeted either to he paversity of Alaska Fairbanks, Director of Employee Relations; the Office of Citi Rights Der samme [iisation, Washington, D.C. orto the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs: Desertnen ok Labor, Washington, D.C,CONTENTS Every Chapter (except Chapter 1) has a vocabulary list; every chapter has exercises; and many chapters, starting with Chapter 6, have connected readings of various sorts. Preface Map of Chapter 1. . Yup’ik phonology and orthography Chapter 2. a Intransitive Indicative Verbs; Yes-No Qi Chapter 3. 7 Absolutive Case as Subject of Intransitive Verb; Ablative-Modalis Case as Indefinite Object of Intransitive Verb; Ablative-Modalis of Place from Which and of Specification Chapter 4... even Formation of Absolutive Plural and Dual; Terminalis Case for Place to Which; Localis Case for Place at Which; Preview of Content Questions and the Interrogative Mood Chapter 5 eee Possessed Absolutive Case with First and Second Person Possessor; Preview of the Optative Mood Chapter 6 73 Vialis case; Equalis Case; Overview of Demonstrative Pronouns and Adverbs and First Group of These to be Memorized (others distributed through later chapters) Chapter 7... se : Possessed Absolutive with Third Person Possessor; Inpossessed Relative and its use as Possessor; Third Person Possessor ‘Oblique Cases; Positional Bases; Second Terminalis Chapter 8 eee = 113 Transitive Indicative Verbs with Third Person Object and any Subject; Transitive vs. Intransitive ‘and Related Case Assignments; Agentive us. Patientive Verbs and the “half- transitive” Postbase; Fourth Person Absolutive Objects; Further Previcia of the Opterie Chapter 9... oes Ablative-modalis with Verbs of Giving and with Verbs of Communicating; Transitive Indicative with Third Person Subject and First or Second Person Objects; Possessed Relative with First or Second Person Possessor; Possessed Oblique Cases with First or ‘Second Person Possessor; Impersonal Subject Verbs Chapter 10. : Third Person Possessed Relative; Transitive Indicative First to Second Person ay Second to First Person; Fourth Person Possessed ‘Relative; The ‘V for, with, to' Postbase; Adverbial and Exclamatory Particles; The Exclamation Forming Suffix 187 153 Chapter 11. . ald Interrogative Mood; Basic Numerals; Days of the Week; (ar)-deletion Chapter 12..... 195 ‘Second Person Subject Optative (commands); First Person Non Singular Intransitive Optative (suggestions); Verbalizing Postbases for Demonstrative Adverbs, be in a ntate of having Ved! Postbase Review for Chapters 2~12.. 219