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Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics): Volume 56 (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics) - Hardcover

Dahlstrom, Amy

 
9780415727495: Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics): Volume 56 (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)

Synopsis

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.

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Dahlstrom, Amy

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