What is contained in the print version of the monograph?
Hoijer’s original monograph is a complexly annotated document built around a set of 55 Apache language texts, including mostly narratives, but also songs, prayers, and speeches, elicited from nine different Apache speakers. These are accompanied by English translations and cross-referenced with a grammatical outline of the language, as well as linguistic and ethnological notes. Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts is exemplary of American structuralist linguistics and philological approach to texts in two respects. First, Hoijer bases his linguistic description upon spoken texts elicited from native speakers. And secondly, he relies upon extensive consultation with Apache speakers in the course of creating his analysis. What results from this approach is a dual resource that is simultaneously a grammatical description of the language and a synchronic philological treatment of the text collection in terms of morphology and grammar. The philological dimension of this particular collecti
