Cree language Cree language structures : a Cree approach
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0919143423
Category
First Nations Language Resources
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Pages
170
Subject
Cree language,
Series Name
Abstract
"This book will be an extremely useful tool for anyone who teaches Cree. For the first time, many of the structural complexities off the language are being presented in a non-technical way -- and by an author who is herself a Cree speaker.
Freda Ahenakew comes from Atâhkakohp, Saskatchewan. She became a Cree language teacher under the guidance of the late Ida McLeod and later took a Master's degree in linguistics at the University of Manitoba. She is Director of the Saskatchewan Indian Languages Institute at Saskatoon.
In addition to technical studies, the author has already published two volumes of Cree texts with full word-lists. In kiskinahamawâkan-âcimowinisa/Student Stories (Algonquian & Iroquoian Linguistics, University of Manitoba) she has edited and translated short stories originally written by her Cree-speaking students. Traditional texts told by two Elders are printed -- exactly as they were spoken -- in a book entitled wâsahikaniwiyiniw-âcimowina/Stories of the House People (University of Manitoba Press). These recorded texts provide most of the illustrations discussed in Cree Language Structures: A Cree Approach.
This book should be in every school where Cree is taught or used, and in every public library."--Back cover.
Freda Ahenakew comes from Atâhkakohp, Saskatchewan. She became a Cree language teacher under the guidance of the late Ida McLeod and later took a Master's degree in linguistics at the University of Manitoba. She is Director of the Saskatchewan Indian Languages Institute at Saskatoon.
In addition to technical studies, the author has already published two volumes of Cree texts with full word-lists. In kiskinahamawâkan-âcimowinisa/Student Stories (Algonquian & Iroquoian Linguistics, University of Manitoba) she has edited and translated short stories originally written by her Cree-speaking students. Traditional texts told by two Elders are printed -- exactly as they were spoken -- in a book entitled wâsahikaniwiyiniw-âcimowina/Stories of the House People (University of Manitoba Press). These recorded texts provide most of the illustrations discussed in Cree Language Structures: A Cree Approach.
This book should be in every school where Cree is taught or used, and in every public library."--Back cover.
Description
x, 170 pages ; 23 cm.
Biblio Notes
Language Note:
Text in Cree and English.
Contents:
Introduction --
Noun inflection --
Verb inflection --
Syntactic particles: a first look --
Teaching with texts.
Text in Cree and English.
Contents:
Introduction --
Noun inflection --
Verb inflection --
Syntactic particles: a first look --
Teaching with texts.
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3
