Geoffrey D Kimball Koasati Grammar All Books sku-152469795

Geoffrey D Kimball's Koasati Grammar is a hardcover title in All Books, SKU sku-152469795. Koasati belongs to the Muskogean language family and is spoken by fewer than five hundred people in southwestern Louisiana and on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Texas. Kimball gathered material from speakers in the larger Louisiana community for this first comprehensive description of the language. After a brief history, the book covers phonology, verb conjugation and morphology, noun morphology, grammatical particles, syntax and semantics. It closes with a discussion of speech styles illustrated by texts. Its grammatical examples come from native speakers' naturally occurring discourse.You may also like Geoffrey D Kimball Koasati Dictionary All Books sku-52851088.