Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language written in English. While focusing on the morphophonology of the main word classes nouns/ adjectives and verbs/ it also deals with other linguistic structures such as prosody/ phonology/ phrase types and clauses. Furthermore/ it provides an introduction to the language and its speakers/ and an outline of a preliminary Pite Saami orthography. An extensive annotated spoken-language corpus collected over the course of five years forms the empirical foundation for this description/ and each example includes a specific reference to the corpus in order to facilitate verification of claims made on the data. Descriptions are presented for a general linguistics audience and without attempting to support a specific theoretical approach/ but this book should be equally useful for scholars of Uralic linguistics/ typologists/ and even learners of Pite Saami.
