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Article: Sanora Yaqui language structures. (Language and Linguistics).
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- March 1, 2002
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DEDRICK, JOHN M. & EUGENE H. CASAD. Sonora Yaqui language structures. xxiii, 411 pp., bibliogr. Tucson: Univ. Arizona Press. 1999. $45.00 (cloth)
This closely printed quarto volume presents an exhaustive account of the phonology and morphosyntax of Sonora Yaqui, a member of the Cahitan sub-group of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Speakers of Yaqui are to be found not only in northwestern Mexico but also as members of a long-resident speech community in and around the barrio of Pascua in Tucson, so it is fitting that this excellent work has a University of Arizona imprint. Yaqui has received considerable attention in previous linguistic literature, including work ...