Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics)

Download or read book Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics) written by Amy Dahlstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.