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Mobilian Jargon

Author : Emanuel J. Drechsel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mobilian Jargon written by Emanuel J. Drechsel and published by . This book was released on 1997-02-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fieldwork and archival research, Drechsel presents a grammatical, sociolinguistic, and ethnohistorical study of Mobilian Jargon, a Muskogean-based American Indian pidgin of the Mississippi valley. Though linguistic and extralinguistic evidence points to Mobilian Jargon's pre-Columbian origin, it was primarily spoken between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century, when it functioned as a lingua franca among linguistically diverse southeastern Native American groups, and in contact between these groups and non-Indians. Drechsel's study questions the universality of some concepts developed in pidgin and creole linguistics, and carries significant implications for the ethnology of Native American peoples, and for the history of North America.

American Indian Languages

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349830
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Languages written by Lyle Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.

Mobilian Trade Language Phrasebook and Lexicon

Author : David V. Kaufman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999548608
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Mobilian Trade Language Phrasebook and Lexicon written by David V. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilian Trade Language Phrasebook and Lexicon is an attempt to encourage revitalization of the now dormant Mobilian Trade Language (MTL). This trade, or pidgin, language was, up until the latter part of the twentieth century, a part of the landscape of the American South and was an important means of communication among various indigenous groups as well as later among Europeans and Africans. This book is designed to get people learning and speaking the language as quickly as possible through learning basic vocabulary and using short phrases.

Mobilian Jargon

Author : Emanuel J. Drechsel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobilian Jargon written by Emanuel J. Drechsel and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Integrated Vocabulary of Mobilian Jargon, a Native American American Pidgin of the Mississippi Valley

Author : Emanuel J. Drechsel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book An Integrated Vocabulary of Mobilian Jargon, a Native American American Pidgin of the Mississippi Valley written by Emanuel J. Drechsel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

Author : Cecil H. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352874
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages by : Cecil H. Brown

Download or read book Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages written by Cecil H. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.

Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US

Author : Susan Tamasi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136579044
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US written by Susan Tamasi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly engaging textbook presents a linguistic view of the history, society, and culture of the United States. It discusses the many languages and forms of language that have been used in the US – including standard and nonstandard forms of English, creoles, Native American languages, and immigrant languages from across the globe – and shows how this distribution and diversity of languages has helped shape and define America as well as an American identity. The volume introduces the basic concepts of sociolinguistics and the politics of language through cohesive, up-to-date and accessible coverage of such key topics as dialectal development and the role of English as the majority language, controversies concerning language use in society, languages other than English used in the US, and the policies that have directly or indirectly influenced language use. These topics are presented in such a way that students can examine the inherent diversity of the communicative systems used in the United States as both a form of cultural enrichment and as the basis for socio-political conflict. The author team outlines the different viewpoints on contemporary issues surrounding language in the US and contextualizes these issues within linguistic facts, to help students think critically and formulate logical discussions. To provide opportunities for further examination and debate, chapters are organized around key misconceptions or questions ("I don't have an accent" or "Immigrants don't want to learn English"), bringing them to the forefront for readers to address directly. Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US is a fresh and unique take on a widely taught topic. It is ideal for students from a variety of disciplines or with no prior knowledge of the field, and a useful text for introductory courses on language in the US, American English, language variation, language ideology, and sociolinguistics.

The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana

Author : Fred B. Kniffen
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807119631
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana written by Fred B. Kniffen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many specialized studies have been written about Louisiana's Indian tribes, no complete account has appeared regarding their long, varied history. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present is a highly informative study that reconstructs the history and cultural evolution of these people. This study identifies tribal groups, charts their migrations within the state, and discusses their languages and customs. According to the authors, the first descriptions of Louisiana Indians are contained in accounts kept by members of Hernando de Soto's expedition In the 1540s. The next recorders of Indian life were the French in the 1700s. European influences irrevocably marked the Indians' lives. The natives lost tribal lands to the new settlers and replaced many of their weapons and tools with those of the Europeans. Diseases apparently introduced by the Spaniards decimated entire tribes and caused the disappearance of certain tribal languages that had never been recorded. However, much of Indian material culture has survived even to the present, including the dugout canoe, or pirogue, and the beautiful cane basketry of the Chitimacha tribe.According to the authors, current figures show that Louisiana has the third largest native American population in the eastern United States. Several of Louisiana's present-day Indian tribes, such as the Tunica-Biloxi, Choctaw, and Koasati, entered the state in the second half of the eighteenth century. They gradually established settlements throughout the state, at times displacing the native tribes. Today, many of Louisiana's Indians work in business and industry and as farmers and loggers.The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana is a valuable contribution to the literature on Louisiana History. It will be of interest to anthropologists, geographers, historians, and anyone wanting to know more about these important members of Louisiana's population.

Language in Danger

Author : Andrew Dalby
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231129008
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Language in Danger written by Andrew Dalby and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Native Languages of the Southeastern United States

Author : Janine Scancarelli
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803242357
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis Native Languages of the Southeastern United States by : Janine Scancarelli

Download or read book Native Languages of the Southeastern United States written by Janine Scancarelli and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contributing linguists draw on their latest fieldwork and research, starting with a background chapter on the history of research on the Native languages of the Southeast. Eight chapters each provide an overview and grammatical sketch of a language, basing discussion on a narrative text presented at the beginning of the chapter. Special emphasis is given to both the fundamental grammatical characteristics of the language - its phonology, morphology, syntax, and various discourse features - and those sociolinguistic and cultural factors that affect its structure and use. Two additional chapters explore the various Muskogean languages (Creek, Alabama, Choctaw, Chickasaw), the only language family confined entirely to the Southeast.".

Speaking American

Author : Richard W. Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199921466
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Speaking American written by Richard W. Bailey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present. The book is organized in half-century segments around influential centers: Chesapeake Bay (1600-1650), Boston (1650-1700), Charleston (1700-1750), Philadelphia (1750-1800), New Orleans (1800-1850), New York (1850-1900), Chicago (1900-1950), Los Angeles (1950-2000), and Cyberspace (2000-present). Each of these places has added new words, new inflections, new ways of speaking to the elusive, boisterous, ever-changing linguistic experiment that is American English. Freed from British constraints of unity and propriety, swept up in rapid social change, restless movement, and a thirst for innovation, Americans have always been eager to invent new words, from earthy frontier expressions like "catawampously" (vigorously) and "bung-nipper" (pickpocket), to West African words introduced by slaves such as "goober" (peanut) and "gumbo" (okra), to urban slang such as "tagging" (spraying graffiti) and "crew" (gang). Throughout, Bailey focuses on how people speak and how speakers change the language. The book is filled with transcripts of arresting voices, precisely situated in time and space: two justices of the peace sitting in a pumpkin patch trying an Indian for theft; a crowd of Africans lounging on the waterfront in Philadelphia discussing the newly independent nation in their home languages; a Chicago gangster complaining that his pocket had been picked; Valley Girls chattering; Crips and Bloods negotiating their gang identities in LA; and more. Speaking American explores--and celebrates--the endless variety and remarkable inventiveness that have always been at the heart of American English.

The Mobilian Trade Language

Author : James Mack Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870492532
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Mobilian Trade Language written by James Mack Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author : Michael B. Montgomery
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616629
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by Michael B. Montgomery and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores language and dialect in the South, including English and its numerous regional variants, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant communities. Among the more than sixty entries are eleven on indigenous languages and major essays on French, Spanish, and German. Each of these provides both historical and contemporary perspectives, identifying the language's location, number of speakers, vitality, and sample distinctive features. The book acknowledges the role of immigration in spreading features of Southern English to other regions and countries and in bringing linguistic influences from Europe and Africa to Southern English. The fascinating patchwork of English dialects is also fully presented, from African American English, Gullah, and Cajun English to the English spoken in Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Outer Banks, the Chesapeake Bay Islands, Charleston, and elsewhere. Topical entries discuss ongoing changes in the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of English in the increasingly mobile South, as well as naming patterns, storytelling, preaching styles, and politeness, all of which deal with ways language is woven into southern culture.

Coastal Encounters

Author : Richmond Forrest Brown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803262671
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Coastal Encounters written by Richmond Forrest Brown and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf South. Stretching from Florida to Texas, the region witnessed the complex collision of European, African, and Native American peoples. The Gulf South offered an extraordinary stage for European rivalries to play out, allowed a Native-based frontier exchange system to develop alongside an emerging slave-based plantation economy, and enabled the construction of an urban network of unusual opportunity for free people of color. After being long-neglected in favor of the English colonies of the Atlantic coast, the colonial Gulf South has now become the focus of new and exciting scholarship. ø Coastal Encounters brings together leading experts and emerging scholars to provide a portrait of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century. The contributors depict the remarkable transformations that took place?demographic, cultural, social, political, and economic?and examine the changes from multiple perspectives, including those of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans; colonizers and colonized; men and women. The outstanding essays in this book argue for the central place of this dynamic region in colonial history.

Processes of Language Contact

Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : Les Editions Fides
ISBN 13 : 9782762120981
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Processes of Language Contact written by Jeff Siegel and published by Les Editions Fides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas

Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110819724
Total Pages : 1903 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas written by Stephen A. Wurm and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 1903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.

Language Change

Author : Anna Mauranen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492851
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Language Change written by Anna Mauranen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.