Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and conventions -- The language and its speakers -- 1 Creek and the Creek-speaking peoples -- 2 Overview of the language -- 3 Creek dialects and ways of speaking -- Phonology -- 4 Phonemes -- 5 General phonological processes -- 6 The organization of phonemes into higher units -- 7 Stress and tone in nouns -- 8 Stress, tone, and grades in verbs -- 9 Orthography -- Nouns and their modifiers -- 10 Nominalization -- 11 Compounding -- 12 Plural nouns -- 13 Size -- 14 Possession -- 15 Pronouns -- 16 Postpositions -- 17 Noun forms with adverbial function -- 18 Adjectival nouns (quantifiers) -- Verbs and their modifiers -- 19 Locative prefixes -- 20 Agreement -- 21 Reflexives and reciprocals -- 22 Adding objects: dative and instrumental -- 23 Plural verbs -- 24 Voice alternations: middle -k-,causative -ic- and -ipeyc- -- 25 Impersonals -- 26 Degree -- 27 Verb forms with adverbial function -- 28 Aspect -- 29 Expressing time: tense and related notions -- 30 Negation -- 31 Mood -- 32 'Be', auxiliaries, and modality -- 33 Numbers and quantifiers -- 34 Describing motion and direction -- 35 Existence -- 36 Sound-symbolic verbs -- Discourse markers -- 37 Case and switch-reference markers -- 38 Focus of attention clitic -- 39 Referential clitic -- 40 Other markers -- Syntax -- 41 Word order and basic syntax -- 42 Clause types -- 43 Interpreting pronouns, reflexives, and reciprocals -- 44 Style -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Paradigms -- Appendix 2: Texts -- Appendix 3: List of common affixes -- References -- Index.

A sourcebook of grammatical constructions in the Creek (Muskogee) language.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.