1st Edition

Plains Cree Morphosyntax

By Amy Dahlstrom Copyright 1991
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Dahlstrom, Amy