A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) by Jack B. Martin, has been selected to receive the Linguistic Society of America’s prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award!
The Bloomfield Award was established to recognize the volume which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics.
Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several hundred members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages of the southern United States.
Martin will be presented with the award at a ceremony preceding the Presidential Address on Saturday, January 7, 2011 at the LSA’s next Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Congrats to Jack!
And this Sunday, if you are in Omaha, go to the Bookworm to meet UNP author Joel Sartore. His book signing begins at 1 p.m.
Sartore has spent twenty years taking pictures for National Geographic magazine and has been a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning since 2005.
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