Dahlstrom Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics)

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-91805-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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’