Plains Cree Morphosyntax

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-72749-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 495 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahlstrom, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dahlstrom, Amy