What is it about?
Distinguishes the subject-nonsubject case system of nouns and independent pronouns from the very different split-intransitive case system reflected in the pronominal agreement system in verbs.
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Why is it important?
The divergence between nominal case marking and verbal agreement is challenging for all linguistic models.
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Based on fieldwork in Mississippi as a student and first-time fieldworker. Superseded by other subsequent work, especially Broadwell's grammar of the language.
Jeffrey Heath
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This page is a summary of: Choctaw cases, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, September 1977, Semantics and Pragmatics,
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v3i0.3289.
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