A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee

With Notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole Dialects of Creek

von Jack B Martin, Margaret Mckane Mauldin

404 Seiten, Hardcover

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"This book represents what may be the optimal collaboration for work on Creek, between a linguist . . . and a native speaker. . . . The compilers of this dictionary have done a splendid job, providing maps, pictures, and illustrations that enhance the pleasure of consulting it."-Anthropological LinguisticsA Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee is the standard reference work for the Creek language.The result of more than ten years of research, A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee draws on the expertise of a linguist and a native Creek speaker to yield the first modern dictionary of the Creek language of the southeastern United States. The dictionary contains over seven thousand Creek-English entries, over four thousand English-Creek entries, and over four hundred Creek place names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma. The volume also includes illustrations, a map, antonyms, dialects, stylistic information, word histories, and other useful reference material. Entries are given in both the traditional Creek spelling and a modern phonemic transcription.

• ISBN: 9780803232075
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2000
• Größe: 237 x 159 mm
• Verlag: Nebraska