Natchez Analytical Dictionary

Geoffrey D. Kimball (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4035-4 (ISBN)

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In Natchez Analytical Dictionary Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natchez, Mississippi, and finally in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Based primarily on the extensive fieldwork of world-renowned linguist Mary R. Haas, the dictionary also contains material collected earlier by linguists and anthropologists such as Victor Riste, John R. Swanton, Albert S. Gatschet, Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson, Albert Pike, and Albert S. Gallatin.

The Natchez language-whose lack of accurate available lexical material has perplexed modern linguists-has long been thought to be related to the Muskogean languages. Kimball’s Natchez Analytical Dictionary fills this critical gap for comparative, historical linguistics.

Geoffrey Kimball is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. He is the author of YukhÍti KÓy: A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language (Nebraska, 2022), Koasati Traditional Narratives (Nebraska, 2010), Koasati Dictionary (Nebraska, 1994), and Koasati Grammar (Nebraska, 1991). Watt Sam (c. 1877–1944), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was one of the last remaining speakers of the Natchez language. He worked extensively with Mary R. Haas and other linguists to record vocabulary, grammar, and more than seventy traditional narratives. Nancy Raven (c. 1874–1957), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was upon her death the last known speaker of Natchez. She worked extensively with Mary R. Haas to record vocabulary, grammar, and fourteen literary narratives.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
The Natchez Speakers and the Linguists Who Worked with Them
Isalakti
Albert S. Gallatin
Anonymous
Albert Pike
John Laslie
Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson
Albert Samuel Gatschet
Creek Sam
Charlie Jumper
Watt Sam
Nancy Raven
Peggy Leaf
John Reed Swanton
Victor Riste
Mary Rosamond Haas
Discussion of Dictionary Entries
Word Classes
Alphabetical Order
Pronunciation
Word Division
Indication of Data Sources
Example Sentences
Diachronic and Idiolectal Variation
Notes
References

Natchez–English Dictionary
Affixes
Auxiliary Elements

English–Natchez Glossary

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	6 photographs, 1 illustration, 131 tables
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-4035-9 / 1496240359
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4035-4 / 9781496240354
Zustand	Neuware