Clause-Typing System of Plains Cree - Indexicality, Anaphoricity, and Contrast

This book examines sentence structure in Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada. Its detailed discussion of the typologically significant syntactic and semantic properties of Plains Cree makes it a valuable resource for those already familiar with this language family and to the wider field of language typology.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: Indexical versus anaphoric clauses


• 2: Mapping indexical and anaphoric CPs onto Plains Cree's morphosyntax


• 3: Indexical clauses: Plains Cree's independent order


• 4: Anaphoric clauses: Plains Cree's conjunct order


• 5: A syntactic classification of anaphoric clauses


• 6: A semantic classification of anaphoric clauses


• 7: Conclusions

About the author

Clare Cook currently teaches in the Native Studies department at Brandon University, having completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia, and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Manitoba, where she taught classes on the structure of Cree for several years. She has carried out extensive fieldwork on Plains Cree since 2003, as well as fieldwork and textual analysis in the related Algonquian languages Blackfoot and Menominee.

Summary

This book examines sentence structure in Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada. Its detailed discussion of the typologically significant syntactic and semantic properties of Plains Cree makes it a valuable resource for those already familiar with this language family and to the wider field of language typology.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Cook, Clare (Brandon University) Cook, Cook Clare
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199654536
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965453-6
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages; Oxford Studies of Endangered L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc