Download or read book Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar written by Jon Philip Dayley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory descriptive grammar of T�mpisa (Panamint) Shoshone, a central Numic language in the Uto-Aztecan family, presents the most important grammatical elements and processes in the language, with regard to verb, noun, adjective and adverbial phrases, simple sentence constructions, coordination and sub- ordination, and phonology. Several texts and a basic vocabulary list are provided.