Wallace Chafe

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Publications on Caddo and the Caddoan Languages

1976.   The Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan Languages. The Hague: Mouton.

 

1977.   Caddo Texts. In Douglas R. Parks (ed.), Caddoan Texts, 27-43.­ International Journal of American Linguistics, Native American Text Series 2, No. 1.

 

1979.   Caddoan. In Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun (eds.), The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment, 213-235. Austin: University of Texas Press.

 

1983.   The Caddo Language, its Relatives, and its Neighbors. In James S. Thayer (ed.), North American Indians: Humanistic Perspectives, 243-250. University of Oklahoma Papers in Anthropology, Vol. 24, No. 2.

 

1990.   Uses of the Defocusing Pronominal Prefixes in Caddo. Anthropological Linguistics 32: 57-68.

 

1993.   Caddo Names in the de Soto Documents. In Gloria A. Young and Michael P. Hoffman (eds.), The Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543: Proceedings of the de Soto Symposia 1988 and 1990, 222-226. Fayetteville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas Press.

 

1995.   The Realis-Irrealis Distinction in Caddo, the Northern Iroquoian Languages, and English. In Joan Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), Modality in Grammar and Discourse, 349-365. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

A Note on the Caddo Language.  In Cecile Elkins Carter, Caddo Indians: Where We Come From, 1-2. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

1997.   Introduction to George A. Dorsey, Traditions of the Caddo. Reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.

 

2005.  Caddo. In Heather K. Hardy and Janine Scancarelli (eds.), The Native Languages of the Southeastern United States. The University of Nebraska Press.

            Tsa Ch’ayah: How the Turtle Got Its Squares. A Traditional Caddo Indian Children’s Story. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation.

In press.

            The History and Geography of the Caddo Language. Language Variety in the South (LAVIS) III. The University of Alabama Press.

            Caddo. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.