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Article: Sonora Yaqui Language Structures.

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John M. Dedrick and Eugene H. Casad: Sonora Yaqui Language Structures. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8165-1981-1. 480 pp. USD 45.00.

Yaqui is a southern Uto-Aztecan language spoken predominantly in the Mexican state of Sonora, although there are also Yaqui-speaking communities in Arizona. The present grammar is based on the intensive and extensive work with native speakers of Yaqui by John Dedrick, whose ill health (he died in 1999) left much work in the hands of Eugene Casad, who also added comparative-historical material relating to other Uto-Aztecan languages and Proto-Uto-Aztecan. Eloise Jelinek also contributed some comparative notes on ... 







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