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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 years of written Choctaw material, "A Choctaw Reference Grammar" contains the most complete description to date of the morphology of the language as well as a thorough treatment of phrase structure, word order, case marking, and complementation. The Choctaw tribe was divided into Oklahoma and Mississippi groups during the Indian Removal of the 1830s. Today the majority of fluent speakers among the Oklahoma Choctaws are more than forty years old, and few children speak the language. Although more children among the Mississippi Choctaws learn the language, the number is declining. Because language is vital to preserving the Choctaws' way of life and both dialects of Choctaw are endangered, careful documentation of the grammatical structure of the language is critically important.; Compiled by the leading scholarly expert on the Choctaw language, George Aaron Broadwell, this volume is both a practical guide to native speakers and an indispensable handbook for linguists. George Aaron Broadwell is an associate professor of anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of "A Mississippi Choctaw-English Dictionary |
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| Notas: | "In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 375 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-369) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803205451 0803205457 1280823615 9781280823619 9786610823611 6610823618 |