1st Edition

Plains Cree Morphosyntax

By Amy Dahlstrom Copyright 1991
    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 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.

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

    Biography

    Dahlstrom, Amy