FW: Biloxi-English Dictionary published

[Rory M Larson]

Great!  Congratulations, David!

Rory





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From: David Kaufman [dvkanth2010 at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 4:33 PM
Subject: Biloxi-English Dictionary published

This is to announce the publication of Tanêks-Tąyosą Kadakathi, Biloxi 
English Dictionary with English-Biloxi Index, ISBN: 978-1-936153-08-4.  It 
has been published online through the University of Kansas KU Scholarworks 
and is available for free immediate download through 
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8006.  The book and its contents may be used in 
accordance with the Creative Commons License as stipulated through <
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/.> 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/.  The Dictionary will 
be periodically revised and updated.  Any feedback on the Dictionary or 
suggestions for future editions may be addressed to the editor/author: 
David Kaufman, dvkanth2010 at gmail.com<mailto:dvkanth2010 at gmail.com>.

Abstract:

Biloxi (ISO 639-3: bll) is a dormant Siouan language.  The only known 
resource available on the language has been A Dictionary of the Biloxi and 
Ofo Languages (1912).  The first linguist to document Biloxi in Louisiana 
was Albert Gatschet in 1886, who discovered that Biloxi was actually 
Siouan, not Muskogean as previously thought.  The Reverend James O. Dorsey 
further documented the language in Louisiana in 1892-93.  His dictionary, 
also incorporating some of Gatschet's previous work, was posthumously 
edited and published by the linguist John Swanton in 1912.  The revised 
dictionary here contains most of the original Dorsey-Swanton data 
augmented with new entries (from Gatschet's unpublished field notes and 
from Haas's 1968 article, "The Last Words of Biloxi"). The current 
dictionary also regularizes the modified Americanist orthography.  It 
contains 2,138 entries and includes my etymological analyses and 
notations, an English index, comparative data from Siouan and other la!
 nguages, example sentences, cross-referencing of entries, cultural 
information, a brief grammatical sketch, as well as appendices on, for 
example, affixes, flora and fauna, medicinal plants, and human body parts.

Thank you.

--
David Kaufman, Ph.C.
University of Kansas
Linguistic Anthropology


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