Re: Mobilian language

Emanuel Drechsel (drechsel@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu)
Fri, 28 Oct 1994 14:58:05 -1000


Since James M. Crawford and Mary Haas published their findings in the
1970s, I have written several articles on Mobilian Jargon, of which I
list only the most recent ones:

"Basic Word Order in Mobilian Jargon: Underlying SOV or OSV?" In:
Anthony Mattina and Timothy Montler (eds.), _American Indian Linguistics
and Ethnography in Honor of Laurence C. Thompson_. University of Montana
Occasional Papers in Linguistics, No. 10, 1993, Pp. 343-367

"Mobilian Jargon in the 'Prehistory' of Southeastern North America."
In: Patricia B. Kwachka (ed.), _Perspectives on the Southeast_.
Linguistics, Archaeology, and Ethnohistory. (Southern Anthropological
Society Proceedings, No. 27.) Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1994, Pp. 25-43

"The Philology of Non-European Pidgins: The Case of Mobilian Jargon."
In: _California Linguistics Notes_, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 1994, Pp. 51-62

Those interested in the question of Mobilian Jargon's pre-European
existence should look at the second essay in Kwachka's volume. I have
explored this hypothesis further by comparing distinct grammatical
patterns of the pidgin with areal traits in Southeastern Indian languages
for shared marked features as possible clues of pre-European origin, and
have presented a paper on this topic at the recent Mid-America Linguistics
Conference at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Its title is
"Mobilian Jargon in the Language Area of Southeastern North America," and
will be submitted for publication to the _1994 Mid-America Linguistics
Conference Papers_, edited by Frances Ingemann of the University of
Kansas.