keresan

Emmon Bach (bach@coins.cs.umass.edu)
Mon, 20 Jun 1994 19:56:00 EST


This is a reply to Margaret Scarborough's query about Acoma Keresan (I tried
to answer directly but the message got bounced back):

You'll find a (very little) bit in this book:

Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun,eds., _The Languages of Native America_.
University of Texas Press, 1979.

There's a survey article by Irvine Davis on Kiowa-Tanoan, Keresan, and Zuni
with some references to (older) literature.
I also checked Vol. 9 (one of the Southwest volumes) of the
Smithsonian Handbook of NA Indians (which covers Laguna and Acoma) and
there's a little bit in there, but practically nothing about the language
except that the group has no known linguistic relatives.

Hope this helps a little.

Emmon Bach
Linguistics
UMass, Amherst MA 01003