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A Choctaw reference grammar /

This book is the most comprehensive reference grammar of Choctaw, an American Indian language spoken by approximately eleven thousand people located primarily in Mississippi and Oklahoma. Based on nineteen years of field work with speakers of the Mississippi and Oklahoma dialects and more than 150 y...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broadwell, George Aaron
Autor Corporativo: Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Colección:Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Choctaw language; 2. Phonology; 3. Basic syntactic typology; 4. Noun phrases: Derivation and possession; 5. Noun phrases: Order, case marking and determiners; 6. Pronouns; 7. Interrogatives and indefinites; 8. Verbal derivational morphology; 9. Verbal agreement and applicatives; 10. Aspectual grades; 11. Tense and modality; 12. Evidentiality and illocutionary force; 13. Auxiliaries, semiauxiliaries, and participles; 14. Adjectives and quantifiers; 15. Adpositions and their equivalents; 16. Switch-reference and embedded clauses; 17. Subject and object changing rules; 18. Adverbs and their equivalents; 19. Lexical semantics and special semantic fields; 20. Texts