An Outline Of Plains Cree Morphology

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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 1422375455
Total Pages : 90 pages
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Download or read book Plains Cree: A Grammatical Study: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 63, Part 5) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. Christoph Wolfart
Publisher : 1969 [c1970]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
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Download or read book An Outline of Plains Cree Morphology written by H. Christoph Wolfart and published by 1969 [c1970]. This book was released on 1969 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David H. Pentland
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887558925
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics written by David H. Pentland and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive annotated bibliography includes all items published on Algonquian languages between 1891 and 1981, earlier works overlooked in Pilling's 1891 Bibliography, reprints and re-editions. The work includes full cross-references, giving alternate titles, editors, reviews, and related publications, and it includes a detailed index organized by language group and topic. In the introduction, the authors describe the bibliographical problems in this field and give helpful advice on how to locate publications. This volume will be of value not only to Algonquianists, but to all those with an interest in North American Indian languages, and particularly to teachers of Native languages.

Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521298759
Total Pages : 800 pages
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Download or read book The Languages of Native North America written by Marianne Mithun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.

Author : Clare Cook
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191625914
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clause-Typing System of Plains Cree written by Clare Cook and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers detailed empirical coverage of the syntax and semantics of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada. It combines careful elicitation with corpus studies to provide the first systematic investigation of the two distinct verbal inflectional paradigms - independent and conjunct - in the language. The book argues that the independent order denotes an indexical clause type with familiar deictic properties, while the conjunct order is an anaphoric clause type whose reference is determined by rules of anaphoric dependence. Both syntactic and semantic considerations are examined: on the syntactic side, indexical clauses are shown to be restricted to a subset of matrix environments, and to exclude proforms that have clause-external antecedents or induce cross-clausal dependencies. Anaphoric clauses have an elsewhere distribution: they occur in both matrix and dependent contexts, and freely host and participate in cross-clausal dependencies. The semantic discussion focusses primarily on the context in which a proposition is evaluated: it shows that indexical clauses have absolute tense and a speaker origo, consistent with deixis on a speech act; anaphoric clauses, by contrast, use anaphoric dependencies to establish the evaluation context. Data from Plains Cree is compared to the matrix/subordinate system found in English, to the clause-chaining system of the Amele language of Papua New Guinea, and to Romance subjunctive clauses. The book also provides the first micro-typology of pronominal marking and initial change in Algonquian languages.

Author : Amy Dahlstrom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918053
Total Pages : 224 pages
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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 224 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.

Author : Simone Mattiola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262586
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Download or read book Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World written by Simone Mattiola and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach.

Author : Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110721570
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book Linguistic Preferences written by Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in Paperback

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1938 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Siddiqi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351810278
Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages written by Daniel Siddiqi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.