The Morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu

This dissertation presents a detailed description of the morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu, an endangered variety of Manchu spoken traditionally within my mukvn, or clan. First, this work introduces the Manchu language, community-related information, revitalization, and recent speaker demographics. This information is followed by the Deretu Manchu description itself, comprising a brief introduction to its phonemic inventory and phonology, and a description of both its morphology and syntax. All descriptive portions of this text additionally provide examples of contemporary uses of our language in modern speaking domains – involving topics such as programming, linguistics, video games, and job searching. Finally, this work includes a Jurchen language SAS® Terms Dictionary intended for community use, as well as a discussion of the most frequent methods of developing neologisms used by myself and my ahvn Mukdexan in our revitalization work together.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Graduate College

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Arizona.

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Autry, Robert

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Harley, Heidi

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Zepeda, Ofelia
• Fountain, Amy

• Jurchen
• Juxen
• Language Revitalization
• Manchu
• Tungus
• Tungusic

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• Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction, presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.

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Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10150/678481

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/678481