Ullrich Jan, Black Bear Ben, Jr. Lakota Grammar Handbook

A pedagogically oriented self-study reference and practice book for beginner to upper intermediate students. With an answer key. — Bloomington: Lakota Language Consortium, 2016. — X, 624 p.Together with the New Lakota Dictionary, this pedagogically oriented grammar offers the most comprehensive documentation of the Lakota language to date, providing a self study reference and practice guide for second language learners of Lakota, as well as a detailed reference material for linguistic researchers, Lakota language teachers and native speakers involved in educational activities. Based on text corpus analysis, the grammar offers progressive coverage of all major grammatical constructions. The sentences that illustrate the various areas of grammar originate from authentic narratives and dialogs recorded from hundreds of Lakota speakers, making this grammar rich both linguistically and culturally, and helping the learner gain deeper understanding of how native speakers describe their worldview in terms of grammatical structures and cultural patterns.Two books in one: a self-study reference grammar and a grammar practice workbook
Includes an answer key for the exercises
The most comprehensive grammar of the Lakota language
Nearly 19,000 sentences (7,309 example sentences and 11,663 practice sentences)
All sentences come from authentic sources (from narratives and dialogs recorded from native speakers)
Provides descriptions of numerous grammatical constructions that were not previously documented
Offers revision of many previous grammatical descriptions
Packed with cultural content (e.g. how possessive verbs are used in prayers to evoke the relationship to the Creator)
Detailed index and additional discussions in the appendix