Ebook: Basic Yurok grammar

Berkeley: Department of Linguistics University of California, 2010. - 76 p.This booklet provides information about basic grammatical patterns in the Yurok language. The patterns covered are identified by the Yurok Tribe as elements of basic Yurok for teacher certification purposes. Anyone is welcome to use this, but teachers and future teachers are the intended audience. Please keep in mind that languages are best learned by speaking and listening, not by reading; this is meant as a supplement to the spoken language.
Among the many topics not covered here are bipersonal verbs, attributive verbs, locative nouns, and other more elaborate sentence patterns. These and other important areas of grammar will be included in intermediate and advanced descriptions of Yurok grammar. Advanced students may wish to consult R. H. Robins’s The Yurok language: Grammar, texts, lexicon (1958), written in a rather technical style for professional linguists, as well as the publications of Yurok Language Project participants at UC Berkeley.