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

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Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin - Drechsel, Emanuel J
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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 Native American groups, and in contact between these groups and non-Indians. ...

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Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin 1997, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198240334

Hardcover