Eastern Pomo language

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Eastern Pomo (also Clear Lake Pomo) is an endangered Pomoan language spoken around Clear Lake in Lake County, California by one of the several Pomo peoples.

Contents 1 Grammar 1.1 Evidentials 2 See also 3 External links 4 Bibliography

[edit] Grammar

[edit] Evidentials

Grammatical evidentiality is expressed by 4 evidential suffixes that are added to verbs, -ink’e (nonvisual sensory), -ine (inferential), -·le (hearsay), -ya (direct knowledge).

Evidential type	Example Verb	Gloss
nonvisual sensory	pʰa·békʰ-ink’e	"burned" [speaker felt the sensation]
inferential	pʰa·bék-ine	"must have burned" [speaker saw circumstantial evidence]
hearsay (reportative)	pʰa·békʰ-·le	"burned, they say" [speaker is reporting what was told]
direct knowledge	pʰa·bék-a	"burned" [speaker has direct evidence]

[edit] See also

• Pomoan languages
• Pomo people

[edit] External links

• Eastern Pomo Language
• Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians
• Robinson Rancheria Tribe of Pomo Indians Home Page
• Ethnologue: Eastern Pomo
• Vocabulary Words in Native American Languages: Pomo

[edit] Bibliography

• McLendon, Sally. (2003). Evidentials in Eastern Pomo with a comparative survey of the category in other Pomoan languages. In A. Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon (Eds.), Studies in evidentiality(pp. 101-129). Typological studies in language (Vol. 54). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 90-272-2962-7; ISBN 1-58811-344-2.
• Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.