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Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F World Linguistics) [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Language Arts & Disciplines)
  • Author:  Dahlstrom, Amy
  • Author:  Dahlstrom, Amy
  • ISBN-10:  0415727499
  • ISBN-10:  0415727499
  • ISBN-13:  9780415727495
  • ISBN-13:  9780415727495
  • Publisher:  Routledge
  • Publisher:  Routledge
  • Pages:  224
  • Pages:  224
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Dec-2013
  • Pub Date:  01-Dec-2013
  • SKU:  0415727499-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0415727499-11-MPOD
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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

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