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Koasati Grammar
Geoffrey D. Kimball, Cloth: 1991,xxx,640,CIP.LC
90-12277,0-8032-2725-6
Studies in the Anthropology
of North American Indians Series
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An American Indian language belonging
to the Muskogean linguistic family, Koasati is spoken
today by fewer than five hundred people living in southwestern
Louisiana and on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation
in Texas. Geoffrey D. Kimball has collected material
from the speakers of the larger Louisiana community
to produce the first comprehensive description of Koasati.
The book opens with a brief history
of the Koasati. The chapters that follow describe Koasati
phonology, verb conjugation classes and inflectional
morphology, verb derivation, noun inflectional and derivational
morphology, gramma,ical particles, and syntax and semantics.
A discussion of Koasati speech styles illustrated with
texts concludes the book. Because examples of grammatical
construction are drawn from native speakers in naturally
occurring discourse, they authoritatively document aspects
of a language that is little known.
Geoffrey D. Kimball is a post-doctoral
fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University.
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