Published in: International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Oct., 1984), pp. 384-402. Languages have a wide range of phenomena for grammatically signaling relationships among clausal and sentential elements. A subclass of these, such as agreement, pronominalization, reflexives, switch-reference, and others, can be termed NP referential coding phenomena since...
Published in: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 11, No. 81. (Jan., 1869), pp. 317-367. The Choctaw, or properly Chahta nation, numbers at present about 17,000 souls, 4,500 of whom are Chickasaws. When first known to Europeans these allied peoples occupied the territory on the left bank of the Mississippi, almost from the Ohio river to the Gulf. They belong...
(Publication details not specified) - 76 p. Choctaw is a Muskogean language that was originally spoken in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. Federal Indian policy in the 1830's forced the Choctaws, along with the Chickasaws, Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokees, to give up their lands in the southeast and relocate in Oklahoma. While the majority of the Choctaws were moved to...
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915. — xi + 611 p. This dictionary represents a portion of the results of nearly fifty years of missionary service among the Choctaw Indians on the part of its compiler, Rev. Cyrus Byington. It is a source of valuable linguistic, and also ethnologic, information faithfully recorded at a time when many things were to be learned which are now...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. — XX, 378 p. Choctaw Language and Culture combines a beginning language and grammar text with a selection of essays on Choctaw history, language, and culture from prehistoric times to the present.In part one of the book, “Chahta Anumpa,” Marcia Haag, a linguist, and Henry Willis, a native speaker and Choctaw instructor, present the...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 375 p. — ISBN 978-0-8032- 13 15-9. Choctaw is a Muskogean language originally spoken in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. The majority of the Choctaw tribe was forcibly relocatedto Oklahoma between 1831 and 1833, but a substantial number resisted removal and remained in Mississippi. There are now four main groups of Choctaw...