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Miller, Amy – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1989
A special word, "naynaa," which occurs in the Jamul dialect of Diegueno, a Yuman language spoken in the San Diego, California, area is described. Jamul has subject-object-verb word order, and its major word classes are noun and verb. Lexical pronouns are not required. Clauses may be connected by means of switch reference marking, and/or…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Sentence Structure
