Haruo Aoki. Nez Perce Grammar

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1970. — XII, 168 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 62).I present this work in this form at this time in the hope that some of us may be able to use this as a point of departure in furthering more works in Sahaptian linguistics. In terms of recent theoretical advances this work is an analysis of the "surface structure” of the Nez Perce language. In the view of some workers such an analysis is a necessary preliminary to any one of a variety of possible restatements. I have attempted (to quote Teeter, who put it so aptly) "to facilitate the task of would-be restaters, rather than try to work out an 'air-tight' description which would turn out to be well-vented, as is too frequently the case in such matters."
The present work is offered also in the hope that it might contribute to the general discussion of theoretical points beyond the Sahaptian area.
The field work for this description was done during the summers of 1960 - 1962 at Kooskia and Kamiah, Idaho, under the auspices of the Survey of California Indian Languages, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, with the cooperation of the Idaho State Historical Society.