Natchez Analytical Dictionary

Auteur

Geoffrey Kimball is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. He is the author of Yukhíti Kóy: A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language (Nebraska, 2022), Koasati Traditional Narratives (Nebraska, 2010), Koasati Dictionary (Nebraska, 1994), and Koasati Grammar (Nebraska, 1991). Watt Sam (c. 1877–1944), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was one of the last remaining speakers of the Natchez language. He worked extensively with Mary R. Haas and other linguists to record vocabulary, grammar, and more than seventy traditional narratives. Nancy Raven (c. 1874–1957), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was upon her death the last known speaker of Natchez. She worked extensively with Mary R. Haas to record vocabulary, grammar, and fourteen literary narratives.

Texte du rabat

Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natchez, Mississippi, and finally in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Contenu

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Natchez speakers and the linguists who worked with them.
Isalakti
Albert S. Gallatin
Anonymous
Albert Pike
John Laslie
Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson
Albert Samuel Gatschet
Creek Sam
Charlie Jumper
Watt Sam
Nancy Raven
Peggy Leaf
John Reed Swanton
Victor Riste
Mary Rosamond Haas
Discussion of Dictionary Entries
Word classes
Alphabetical order
Pronunciation
Word division
Example sentences
Diachronic and Idiolectal Variation
References
Notes
Natchez-English Dictionary
Affixes
Auxiliary Elements
English-Natchez Glossary