Clare Cook

Gebundenes Buch

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies of Endangered L
• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780199654536
• ISBN-10: 0199654530
• Artikelnr.: 39558677