A Choctaw Reference Grammar
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A Choctaw Reference Grammar: (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

A Choctaw Reference Grammar: (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)


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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
George Aaron Broadwell is a professor of anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Review :
"Broadwell's grammar represents an important milestone in Muskogean linguistics."-Edward J. Vajda, Word


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803213159
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0803213158
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 680 gr


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