The Structure of Mikasuki Selfhood

Statement of Responsibility: 
Prost, Gilbert
Issue Date: 
1996
Extent: 
pages 629-43
Description: 
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the three set pronoun system of Mikasuki and other Muskogean languages cannot be adequately described in terms of the commonly used linguistic categories of agent, patient, and dative. The author argues for the need for categories found in the Mikasuki structure of selfhood and perception of reality. This is lexically represented by a threefold system of pronouns which provide a particular epistemological "I," "Me," "Relational" orientation to life.
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Published
Country: 
United States
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Is Part Of: 
Frances Ingemann, ed., 1994 Mid-America linguistics conference papers, volume II. Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas
Entry Number: 
619