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The Caddo Language: A Grammar, Texts, and Dictionary Based on Materials Collected by the Author in Oklahoma Between 1960 and 1970
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Language Name
Caddo.
Alternate Language Names
Hasí:nay.
Region
Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, United States.
Who
Wallace Chafe.
Others Involved
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Publishing Information
Published in 2018 by Mundart Press, Petoskey, Michigan.
How People are Cited
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How Information is Cited
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Where is Information Coming from
According to the dictionary's WorldCat reference, information in this dictionary comes from the author’s fieldwork during the 1960s.
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Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is available as a physical book.
Access
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Included Languages and Directionality
According to the dictionary’s WorldCat reference, this dictionary is English to Caddo.
Dialects Included
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Type of Dictionary
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How are Entries Organised
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According to the review by Rood (2019), "there are three parts: a sixty-one page, twelve-chapter grammar, 120 pages of texts in a five-line interlinear format (Caddo, morphologically analyzed Caddo, glosses for the morphemes, literal translation of each word, and free translation of the sentence), and a 132-page English-Caddo dictionary" (491).
Other Features
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External Links
Reference on WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1050714007
A review (2019) by David S. Rood in Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 61, No. 4 (requires institutional login or purchase for $14 USD—the first page of the review is available for a free preview): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/803829/pdf