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Authors: Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin
ISBN-13: 9780803232075, ISBN-10: 0803232071
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Date Published: June 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jack B. Martin

Jack B. Martin is an associate professor of English at the College of William and Mary and a specialist in southeastern Native languages. Margaret McKane Mauldin is an instructor of Creek at the University of Oklahoma.

Book Synopsis

The result of ten years of research, this dictionary contains 7,000 Creek-English entries, 4,000 English-Creek entries, and 400 Creek place names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma. The volume also includes illustrations, a map, antonyms, dialects, and stylistic information. Entries are given in both traditional Creek spelling and a modern phonemic transcription. Martin is associate professor of English at the College of William and Mary, and Mauldin is instructor of Creek at the University of Oklahoma. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Anthropological Linguistics

"This book represents what may be the optimal collaboration for work on Creek, between a linguist . . . and a native speaker. . . . The compilers of this dictionary have done a splendid job, providing maps, pictures, and illustrations that enhance the pleasure of consulting it."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsvi
Contributorsvii
Prefaceviii
Acknowledgmentsix
Abbreviations and Symbolsx
Key to Dictionary Entriesxi
Introductionxiii
Este Maskoke em Opunvkvxiii
Creek Dialectsxvi
Creek Spellingxvii
Information in Creek-English Entriesxxiii
Information in English-Creek Entriesxxx
Sourcesxxx
Part 1Creek-English1
Part 2Topical Information155
Months157
Days of the Week157
Seasons157
Common Expressions157
Common Clans158
Traditional Dances158
Books of the New Testament159
Numbers160
Ordinal Numbers161
Once, Twice, etc.161
Age161
Chiefs and Principal Chiefs of the Creek Nation162
Principal Chiefs, Governors, and Chairmen of the Seminole Nation162
Other Famous Figures163
Part 3Place-Names165
Creek Place-Names and Groups167
English Place-Names of Creek Origin171
Part 4English-Creek185
Appendix352
Common Affixes appearing in Entries352
Illustrations354

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