Full Description
Crow, a Siouan language spoken on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, remains one of the most vital Native American languages, with several thousand speakers. A Grammar of Crow is the first detailed description of the Crow language in a contemporary linguistic framework. Randolph Graczyk draws on more than thirty-five years of daily contact with speakers of the language and his training as a linguist to offer an in-depth description and analysis of the crucial elements of the language, illustrated with numerous examples. The grammar is primarily descriptive, couched in terms of universal linguistic theory. It examines phonological, morphological, and syntactic features and treats the major phonological and morphological structures of Crow, paying considerable attention to the syntax of relative and subordinate clauses, noun incorporation, and various serial verb constructions. The switch reference system is also discussed in detail.
Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations for sources of examples
Abbreviations in grammatical glosses
Treatment of examples
1. Introduction
2. Phonology
3. Nominal morphology
4. Deixis
5. Verb derivation
6. Verb inflection
7. Adverbs
8. Quantifiers
9. Basic clause structure
10. Noun phrase structure
11. Relative clauses
12. Nominal incorporation
13. Verb incorporation
14. Adverbial subordinate clause
15. Postpositional phrases
16. Independent and cosubordinate clauses
17. Interrogatives
References
Index
