A Proto-Muskogean Paradigm

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ID2853336
AutoresMary R Haas (0000-0002-9506-5928, autor correspondente)
Ano1946
Volume22
Fascículo4
Páginas326
Data de publicação1946-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/409922
OpenAlexW2330644653
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

1. The Muskogean family of languages has two main divisions, the Western and the Eastern.' Among extant languages, the Western division is represented only by Choctaw-Chickasaw; the extant languages of the Eastern division may be further divided into three subgroups: (1) Alabama-Koasati, (2) HitchitiMikasuki, and (3) Creek-Seminole.2 The material on which the present paper is based is taken from my field notes on Choctaw, Koasati, Hitchiti, and Creek (Muskogee).3 These four languages may be considered representative of the family as a whole, since both divisions and all the subgroups are represented among them. The Proto-Muskogean paradigm reconstructed in this paper is that of the subject pronoun affixes used with active verbs. I present first the affixes used in each of the four languages for which source material is available to me, and after that the reconstructed paradigm of Proto-Muskogean

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