Choctaw Verb Agreement and Universal Grammar

by William D. Davies

Book Overview

The Choctaw language, indigenous to the southeastern United States, now with its greatest concentrations ofspeakers in Missis- sippi, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles, has in the main escaped the scrutinyoftheoreticallinguistics.ItisnotthatChoctaw isanintrin- sicallyuninterestinglanguage- aquickglanceataclausewithfive agreement controllers and a mismatch between the caseofafree- standingnominaland its agreement affix should dispelthat notion. Rather it is,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027721424
• ISBN13: 9789027721426
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"