Plains Cree Morphosyntax (Rle Linguistics F: World Linguistics): Volume 56 (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.

• | Author: Amy Dahlstrom
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 26, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138978507
• | ISBN-13: 9781138978508