Dr. David J. Costa's Publications

Publications on the Miami-Illinois language:

Costa, David J. 1991a. Approaching the Sources on Miami-Illinois. In William Cowan, ed., Papers of the Twenty-second Algonquian Conference 30-47. Ottawa: Carleton University.

Costa, David J. 1991b. The Historical Phonology of Miami-Illinois Consonants. International Journal of American Linguistics 57: 365-393.

Grant, Anthony P. & David J. Costa. 1991. Some Observations on J.P. Harrington's Peoria Vocabulary. Anthropological Linguistics 406-436.

Costa, David J. 1992. Miami-Illinois Animal Names. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 17/3: 19-44.

Costa, David J. 1993. The Mission Press Wea Primer of 1837. In William Cowan, ed., Papers of the Twenty-fourth Algonquian Conference 46-63. Ottawa: Carleton University.

Costa, David J. 1994. The Miami-Illinois Language. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

Costa, David J. 1997. Iilaataweeyankwi: Our Language. A Handbook of the Miami Language. Miami, Oklahoma: Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

Costa, David J. 1999. The Kinship Terminology of the Miami-Illinois Language. Anthropological Linguistics 41: 28-53.

Costa, David J. 2000. Miami-Illinois Tribe Names. In John Nichols, ed., Papers of the Thirty-first Algonquian Conference 30-53. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

Costa, David J. 2002. An Overview of the Illinois Language. In Masthay, Carl, ed. Kaskaskia Illinois-to-French Dictionary. St. Louis, Missouri, 2-5.

Costa, David J. 2003. The Miami-Illinois Language. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Costa, David J. 2004. Corrections to the Miami-Illinois Language. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 29/1: 10.

Costa, David J. 2005a. The St-Jérôme Dictionary of Miami-Illinois. In H. C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the 36th Algonquian Conference, 107-133. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

Costa, David J. 2005b. Culture Hero and Trickster Stories. In Brian Swann, ed., Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America, 292-319. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Baldwin, Daryl & David J. Costa. 2005. Myaamia Neehi Peewaalia Kaloosioni Mahsinaakani: a Miami-Peoria Dictionary. Miami, Oklahoma: Miami Nation.

Costa, David J. 2007. Illinois: A Place Name. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter XXV: 4, 9-12

Costa, David J. 2008. New Notes on Miami-Illinois. Papers of the 38th Algonquian Conference.

Some of his other linguistic publications are the following:

Costa, David J. 1996. Reconstructing Initial Change in Algonquian. Anthropological Linguistics 38: 39-72.

Costa, David J. 2001. Shawnee Noun Plurals. Anthropological Linguistics 43: 255-287.

Costa, David J. 2002. Preverb Usage in Shawnee Narratives. In H. C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the 33rd Algonquian Conference, 120-161. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

Costa, David J. 2003. Historical Topics in Shawnee Verb Inflection. In: Blair A. Rudes and David J. Costa (eds.). Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr. Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics Memoirs Series Memoir 16, 1-13.

Rhodes, Richard A. & David J. Costa. 2003. The History of Algonquian Number Words. In: Blair A. Rudes and David J. Costa (eds.). Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr. Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics Memoirs Series Memoir 16, 181-215.

Costa, David J. 2007. The Dialectology of Southern New England Algonquian. In H. C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the 38th Algonquian Conference, 81-127. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.