A Choctaw reference grammar / George Aaron Broadwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broadwell, George Aaron.

Contributor:

Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute.

Series:

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choctaw language--Grammar.

Choctaw language.

Choctaw language--Phonology.

Choctaw language--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 375 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

"In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-369) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-82361-5

9786610823611

0-8032-0545-7

OCLC:

123444942