Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics)

<p>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.</p>