Plains Cree Morphosyntax (Rle Linguistics F: World Linguistics): Volume 56

ISBN-13: 9780415727495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str.

Amy Dahlstrom

Opis

This book explores several topics in Cree morphology, syntax and discourse structure. Cree, an Algonquian language, is non-configurational: the grammatical relations of subject and object are not expressed by word order or other constituent structure relations, as they are in a configurational language like English. Instead, subjects and objects are expressed by means of the inflection on the verb. Cree is typical of non-configurational languages in allowing a great deal of word order variation. This study examines in detail aspects of the Plains Cree dialect, giving a valuable insight into the structure of this endangered language.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Inflection  3. Direct, Inverse and Passive Verbs  4. Obviation  5. Lexical Processes.  Appendix: ‘A Brave Boy’

O autorze

Dahlstrom, Amy