Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 8/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)


Historical Sociolinguistics of the Mescalero Apache

FAIN: FT-13450-77

Betty L. Dubois
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM 88003-8002)

To continue studies aimed at reconstructing an aspect of the historical sociolinguistics of the Mescalero Apache, a Southern Athapaskan people resident in east-central New Mexico. Pi's aim is to establish the sociolinguistics of their contacts with English speakers during the early period of United States domination, 1846-1880.