Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin

(Part of the Oxford Studies in Language Contact Series)

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198240333

ISBN13:9780198240334

Release Date:March 1997

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:163.00 lbs.

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Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin

(Part of the Oxford Studies in Language Contact Series)

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