Publications in Linguistics Switch Reference in Koasati Discourse

Type

Book

Authors

Rising ( David P. Rising )

ISBN 10

0883128136

ISBN 13

9780883128138

Tags

Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses, Instruction, Social Sciences, Foreign Languages

Series Name

Publications in Linguistics

Description

Koasati, a Muskogean language, is spoken by about 200 people in Elton, Louisiana, and by a smaller number near Livingston, Texas. This volume contains a brief sociolinguistic note, a phonological description, and a grammar outline. Then in the remaining two chapters, the salient features of switch reference in the language are described, and it is shown that this feature is not just a syntactic phenomenon but also a pervasive system that interacts with high-level discourse.

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