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A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers (review)

A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by... Book Reviews A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers. IVES GODDARD and LUCY THOMASON. Petoskey, Mich.: Mundart Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 423. $25.95 (paper). Reviewed by Philip S. LeSourd, Indiana University This volume provides an extensive compilation of words drawn from written works by native speakers of the Meskwaki language of Tama County, Iowa (also known as Fox), that date from the first decades of the twentieth century. Meskwaki is member of the Algonquian family of languages, closely related to Sauk and Kickapoo, and is known for its phonological conservatism. Meskwaki material played a central role in Bloomfield's (1946) celebrated reconstruction of the morphological system of Proto-Algonquian. The earliest texts on which Goddard and Thomason draw were collected by William Jones in 1901--1902 and subsequently published (Jones 1907). Jones was one-quarter Meskwaki and had been raised by his father, a second-language Meskwaki speaker, and his Indian grandmother. He graduated from Harvard in 1900, then completed a doctorate under Franz Boas at Columbia in 1904 (Goddard 1988:193). But the bulk of the material in the dictionary is taken from a collection of more than twenty-seven thousand pages of manuscript material written out http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers (review)

LeSourd, Philip S.
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 58 (1) – Dec 24, 2016
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Book Reviews A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers. IVES GODDARD and LUCY THOMASON. Petoskey, Mich.: Mundart Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 423. $25.95 (paper). Reviewed by Philip S. LeSourd, Indiana University This volume provides an extensive compilation of words drawn from written works by native speakers of the Meskwaki language of Tama County, Iowa (also known as Fox), that date from the first decades of the twentieth century. Meskwaki is member of the Algonquian family of languages, closely related to Sauk and Kickapoo, and is known for its phonological conservatism. Meskwaki material played a central role in Bloomfield's (1946) celebrated reconstruction of the morphological system of Proto-Algonquian. The earliest texts on which Goddard and Thomason draw were collected by William Jones in 1901--1902 and subsequently published (Jones 1907). Jones was one-quarter Meskwaki and had been raised by his father, a second-language Meskwaki speaker, and his Indian grandmother. He graduated from Harvard in 1900, then completed a doctorate under Franz Boas at Columbia in 1904 (Goddard 1988:193). But the bulk of the material in the dictionary is taken from a collection of more than twenty-seven thousand pages of manuscript material written out

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