ebook img

Plains Cree Morphosyntax PDF

218 Pages·2013·2.719 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview Plains Cree Morphosyntax

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: LINGUISTICS Volume 56 PLAINS CREE MORPHOSYNTAX This page intentionally left blank PLAINS CREE MORPHOSYNTAX AMY DAHLSTROM R Routledge Tavlor &. Francis GrouD LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublishedin1991 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2014 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1991AmyDahlstrom Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-64438-9(Set) eISBN:978-0-203-07902-7(Set) ISBN:978-0-415-72749-5(Volume56) eISBN:978-1-315-85222-5(Volume56) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. Plains Cree Morphosyntax An1y Dahlstrom GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC. New York • London 1991 Copyright© 1991byAmyDahlstrom Allrightsreserved. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Dahlstrom,Amy. PlainsCreemorphosyntax/AInyDahlstrom. p. cm- (Outstandingdissertationsinlinguistics) Originallypresentedastheauthor'sdissertation. Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN0-8153-0172-3(alk.paper) 1.Creelanguage-Morphology. 2.Creelanguage-Syntax. 3.Creelanguage-Discourseanalysis. I. Title. II.Series. PM987.D3 1991 497'J-dc20 91-9759 Printedon(Kid-free250-year-Jiftpaper Acknowledgements Firstofall,IamindebtedtomyCreeteachersandfriends, MadeleineGreyeyesDennison and John Starblanket. Without theirinsightsinto theirlanguage, this dissertation couldnot have been written. I am enormously grateful to both Madeleine and John for encouraging me in this project, for their inexhaustible patience, and for never letting things get too serious. The following Cree speakers also helped meon various occasions: Freda Ahenakew, SmithAtimoyoo, Judy Bear,Susan Harper, Joe LaFromboise, andDonna Paskemin. Special thanks go to FredaAhenakew, directorofthe SaskatchewanIndianLanguages Institute, and the rest of the Institute stafffor their hospitality, and to everyone in the Cree 120 class for making my time in Saskatoon so much fun. The members ofmy committee- Wally Chafe, Chuck Fillmore, Johanna Nichols, and Joan Bresnan - contributeda range ofvaluable perspectives and expertise on the morpho logical, syntactic, and discourse issues raised here, and have been unfailingly helpful during the writing of these chapters. Ives Goddard provided numerous comments and suggestions, particularly on the obviation chapter. I am especially grateful for his close reading of the text given as an appendix to this volume. Cathy O'Connor, Farrell Ackerman, Paul Kay, and Mark Gawron spent countless hours worrying with me over the proper analysis of the data and the theoretical issues involved. Many thanks to you all. I have also benefitted from the comments of many other people, including Steve An derson, Claudia Brugman, Don Frantz, Orin Gensler, Jeff Goldberg, Jonni Kanerva, Paul Kiparsky, GeorgeLakoff, KnudLambrecht,TomLarsen, LoriLevin,MonicaMacaulay, Lorna MacDonald, Marianne Mithun, John Nichols, David Pentland, Rich Rhodes, David Solnit, Eve Sweetser, Len Talmy, Van Valin, Jim Watters, Chris Wolfart, and Karl Zimmer. Various portions ofthis research werefunded bya Canadian Studies Graduate Student Fellowshipfrom thegovernment ofCanada,the PhillipsFundofthe American Philosophical Society, the University of CaliforniaSurvey of California and Other Indian Languages, and it University of California Humanities Graduate Research Grant. Finally, Iny parents and Stephen Deerhake have given me constant love and encour agen1.ent, for which I am deeply grateful. Stephen provided constant and extraordinary computer support as well. I want to thank him, and my other kind, tolerant, bewildered non-linguist friends, for puttingup withmeand takingcareofmeduring the writingofthis dissertation. Plains Cree morphosyntax Chapter 1. Introduction 1 1. Background on Cree 2 2. Overview offollowing chapters 5 Chapter 2. Inflection 9 1. Noun inflection 10 1.1. Gender and number . 10 1.2. Obviation . 11 1.3. Locative case . 12 1.4. Possession 13 2. General organization ofverb inflection 14 2.1. Stemclasses 14 2.2. Inflectional orders 16 2.2.1. Motivation for grouping paradigms into orders 16 2.2.2. Remarks on e·= and ka·= 18 2.3. Sampleparadigms 20 2.4. Inflectional template and affix chart 24 2.5. General morphophonemic rules 28 2.5.1. Palatalization . 28 2.5.2. Contraction 28 2.5.3. Deletion 29 2.5.4. Nasals become h 29 3. Animate Intransitive 29 3.1. Non-third person subjects 30 3.2. Third person subjects 31 4. Inanimate Intransitive 32 5. Transitive Inanimate 34 5.1. Theme signs 34 5.2. Subject inflection 35 6. Transitive Animate . 35 6.1. Mixed set . 36

See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.