Table of Contents

1. The Choctaw language; 2. Phonology; 3. Basic syntactic typology; 4. Noun phrases: Derivation and possession; 5. Noun phrases: Order, case marking and determiners; 6. Pronouns; 7. Interrogatives and indefinites; 8. Verbal derivational morphology; 9. Verbal agreement and applicatives; 10. Aspectual grades; 11. Tense and modality; 12. Evidentiality and illocutionary force; 13. Auxiliaries, semiauxiliaries, and participles; 14. Adjectives and quantifiers; 15. Adpositions and their equivalents; 16. Switch-reference and embedded clauses; 17. Subject and object changing rules; 18. Adverbs and their equivalents; 19. Lexical semantics and special semantic fields; 20. Texts

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The authoritative reference on the grammar of the Choctaw language, written and compiled by its leading scholarly expert.

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George Aaron Broadwell is a professor of anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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