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

by Emanuel J. Drechsel. 396 pgs.

Contributors:

   Emanuel J. Drechsel

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford, England  

Publication Year:

  1997

Subjects:

Mobilian Trade Language--History, Mobilian Trade Language--Social Aspects, Mobilian Trade Language--Grammar

	Contents
	List of Figures and Tables	xvii
	Abbreviations and Symbols	xviii
	Map of the Major Indian Groups of the Colonial Period	xix
	PART I: THE STUDY OF MOBILIAN JARGON: PERSPECTIVE, THEORY, AND METHODOLOGY
1.	Introduction	3
	1.1. Native Americans in Louisiana and Elsewhere in the US South	3
	1.2. Outline of Current Study	5
2.	Language Contact and Contact Languages in Native North America	10
	2.1. Sociolinguistic Diversity in Southeastern North America as Context	10
	2.2. A Historical Review of Language-Contact Studies in Twentieth-Century Americanist Linguistics	14
	2.3. Pidginization and Creolization of Native American Languages	19
	2.4. Previous Research on Mobilian Jargon	30
3.	Perspective and Research Methods in Studying Mobilian Jargon	34
	3.1. A Comprehensive Approach	34
	3.2. Field Research	41
	3.3. Archival Research	47
	3.4. Towards a Grammar and an Ethnohistory of Mobilian Jargon	51
	PART II: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF MOBILIAN JARGON
	Preliminaries	57
	4. Phonology	62
	4.1. Inventory of Basic Sounds	62
	4.2. Distribution of Basic Sounds	65
	4.3. Syllabic Structure	68
	4.4. Stress and Vowel Length	69
	4.5. Basic Sound and Orthography	70
5.	Lexicon	73
	5.1. General Aspects	73
	5.2. Etymological Composition	74
	5.3. Nature and Extent of Chickasaw Influences	76
	5.4. The Special Case of Algonquian Loan-Words	83
	5.5. Lexical Aspects of Compounds	99
	5.6. The Structure of Compounds	109
6.	Syntax	113
	6.1. General Aspects	113
	6.2. Simple Utterances and Phrases	114
	6.3. Full Sentences	117
	6.4. Complex Constructions	124
	6.5. Basic Structure and Word Order: SOV or OSV?	128
7.	Semantics and Beyond	136
	7.1. General Aspects	136
	7.2. Semantic Domains	136
	7.3. Samples of Discourse: A Monologue, a Song, and Historical Attestations	140
8.	Linguistic Variation	157
	8.1. General Aspects	157
	8.2. Phonological Variation and Processes	157
	8.3. Lexical Variation and Replacement	161
	8.4. Semantactic Variation	175
	8.5. A Broader Perspective: the Lingua Francas Creek and Apalachee as Eastern Varieties	179
	8.6. Nature and Range of Variation	197
	PART III: SOCIOHISTORICAL ASPECTS OF MOBILIAN JARGON
	Preliminaries	203
	9. History	204
	9.1. The Identification of Mobilian Jargon in Historical Records: Names and Extralinguistic Clues	204
	9.2. Historic Attestations of Eastern Mobilian Jargon (the Lingua Franca Creek)	207
	9.3. Historic Attestations of Western Mobilian Jargon (the Chickasaw-Choctaw Trade Language)	215
	9.4. Survival into Modern Times and Recent Decline	244
10.	Sociocultural Aspects	250
	10.1. Geographic Range and Social Distribution	250
	10.2. Communicative Functions	257
	10.3. Meta-Communicative Functions	264
	10.4. Attitudes towards Mobilian Jargon	270
11.	Questions of Origin	274
	11.1. Origin and Development: Pre-European or Post-Contact?	274
	11.2. Mobilian Jargon as the Lingua Franca of the Mississippian Complex?	286
	PART IV: MOBILIAN JARGON IN A BROADER PERSPECTIVE
	Preliminaries	297
12.	Language Convergence in Southeastern Indian Linguistic Diversity	298
	12.1. Mobilian Jargon and Muskogean Languages	298
	12.2. Mobilian Jargon and the Language Area of Southeastern North America	305
	12.3. Mobilian Jargon as a Medium of Lexical Diffusion	315
	12.4. Other Native American Contact Languages of Greater Southeastern North America	324
13.	Conclusions: Methodological and Theoretical Implications	332
	13.1. Mobilian Jargon in Comparison with Other Native American Pidgins	332
	13.2. Linguistic Convergence and Pidginization in Americanist Linguistics	340
	13.3. Native American Languages in the Study of Pidgins and Creoles	344
	13.4. Linguistic Persistence in Americanist Anthropology and History	347
	13.5. A Philology and an Ethnohistory of Speaking of Non- European Non-Standard Languages	351
	13.6. Towards a Comprehensive, Integrated Model and Theory of Language Change	354
	References	358
	Index	385

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