A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)
Published on 1. May 2011
Book
Hardback
504 pages
978-0-8032-1106-3 (ISBN)
Description
Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several hundred members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages of the southern United States. Intended for scholars, students, and Creek instructors, this reference grammar describes all the major morphological and syntactic patterns in the language. Special attention is given to pitch accent and tone, active agreement, locative prefixes, tense, aspect, and switch reference. The description covers several hundred years of documentation and draws heavily on materials written by Creek speakers. It is likely to be the definitive source on the language for years to come.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a very good, thorough reference grammar for Muskogee. . . . For those working with the language and its speakers, it is quite useful and will be an oft-referenced work."-Pamela Innes, Journal of Anthropological ResearchMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 illustration, 2 maps, 60 tables, 13 figures, 3 appendixes
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
859 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-1106-3 (9780803211063)
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Person
Jack B. Martin is an associate professor of English at the College of William and Mary. He is the coeditor of Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales and the coauthor of A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee (Nebraska 2000). Margaret McKane Mauldin is a Creek instructor at the University of Oklahoma. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the College of William and Mary for her contribution to the study and preservation of the Creek language. Juanita McGirt teaches Creek in Okemah, Oklahoma, and transcribed and translated recordings and documents for this volume.
Content
ForewordAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and conventions The language and its speakers1. Creek and the Creek-speaking peoples2. Overview of the language3. Creek dialects and ways of speaking Phonology4. Phonemes5. General phonological processes6. The organization of phonemes into higher units7. Stress and tone in nouns8. Stress, tone, and grades in verbs9. Orthography Nouns and their modifiers10. Nominalization11. Compounding12. Plural nouns13. Size14. Possession15. Pronouns16. Postpositions17. Noun forms with adverbial function18. Adjectival nouns (quantifiers) Verbs and their modifiers19. Locative prefixes20. Agreement21. Reflexives and reciprocals22. Adding objects: dative and instrumental23. Plural verbs24. Voice alternations: middle -k-, causative -ic- and -ipeyc-25. Impersonals26. Degree27. Verb forms with adverbial function28. Aspect29. Expressing time: tense and related notions30. Negation31. Mood32. 'Be', auxiliaries, and modality33. Numbers and quantifiers34. Describing motion and direction35. Existence36. Sound-symbolic verbs Discourse markers37. Case and switch-reference markers38. Focus of attention clitic39. Referential clitic40. Other markers Syntax41. Word order and basic syntax42. Clause types43. Interpreting pronouns, reflexives, and reciprocals44. Style AppendicesAppendix 1: ParadigmsAppendix 2: TextsAppendix 3: List of common affixes ReferencesIndex