`It contains plenty of information about MJ and the Southeastern
languages ... Even avid followers of Drechsel's writings on the
language, myself included, will find a number of facts and
citations which are new to them. The bibliography shows that
Drechsel has examined a huge amount of literature ... Anyone
interested in Southeastern US languages or in pidgins of
non-European bases should acquire this book ... a well-written and
commendable record, as
complete as one can hope for, of a fascinating non-European pidgin
which survived 200 years longer than expected.'
A Grant, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Vol 14 1999
`This book makes a number of important contributions to
sociohistorical linguistics, Pidgin and Creole linguistics and
linguistic reconstruction. Moreover, it provides an excellent
account of a hitherto poorly documented language, Mobilian Jargon.
I have found it well written and most enjoyable to read. ... a very
informative, well written and intellectually stimulating book which
is recommended not just to Pidgin and Creole scholars but everyone
in the
business of reconstructing non-Indo-European languages.'
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`"This is an encyclopedic book, but that is not to say that it is
daunting reading. The book is rationally organized and lucidly
written. The encyclopedic nature of the book is in its contents-in
its comprehensiveness...The book is also beautifully designed and
manufactured, one of the best works of scholarship I have seen in a
long time, from the dust jacket to the printed page. It reveals an
intelligent and artistic use of fonts, styles, tables, figures,
and maps. One gets pleasure just in looking at it".'
Notes in Linguistics
`"This book makes a number of important contributions to
sociohistorical linguistics...Moreover, it provides an excellent
asccount of a hitherto poorly documentened language. Mobilian
Jargon. I have found it well written and most enjoyable to read..I
have found this a very informative, well written and intellectually
stimulating book which is recommended not just to Pidgin and Creole
scholars but everyone in the business of reconstructing
non-Indo-European languages".'
Journal of Sociolinguistics
`Readers who are interested in learning more about Mobilian Jargon
will find most of the relevant data and passages from early sources
in this volume ... the provocative issues that Drechsel has framed
so forcefully in this book should not go ignored.'
Language in Society
The book makes an enduring contribution to Mobilian studies, to
Native American linguistics and sociolinguistics, to ethnohistory,
and to the comparative study of jargons, pidgins, and creoles./ ...
the book offers an abundance of information and a rich discussion
of a fascinating subject./ David W. Dinwoodie, University of New
Mexico, Jrnl of Anthropological Research, Vol 54, 1998.
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