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

by Emanuel J. Drechsel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198240333
• ISBN13: 9780198240334
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 163.00 lbs.