Corral Esteban

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.

Based on fieldwork conducted on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, this book, which seeks to address descriptive and theoretical issues involving complex sentences, has three major aims: i) to present a morpho-syntactic, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic description of complex sentences in Cheyenne; ii) to investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic dimensions of complex sentences; and iii) to contribute to the research, preservation, and revitalization of this ancestral language spoken in the United States of America.

This book will be informative for scholars interested in language typology, comparative linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and language documentation, as well as those interested in Cheyenne learning and teaching.

Avelino Corral Esteban works as a Lecturer in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, where he teaches courses on syntax, historical linguistics, and information structure. His principal research interest is the study of the interaction between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics across languages, and the comparative analysis of the syntax of Native American, Romance, Germanic, and Celtic languages. He has participated in research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom, and the US ACTA´s Living Culture Grants Program, and he leads the Honóxease Project, whose aim is to foster the preservation and revitalization of the Cheyenne language. He is the author of five book chapters, published by Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, and Routledge, and more than twenty research articles, which have appeared in major linguistics journals (Acta Linguistica Academica, WORD, RESLA, Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, Journal of Language Contact, and Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication).