Tagmemic Analysis of a Restricted Cree Text

1 January 1960

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique

Vol. 6 (1) , 35-59
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100018909

Abstract

The following presentation shows the structural analysis of a Cree text in terms of tagmemic formula. The procedure, developed by K. L. Pike, and described in his Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior, is based on the hypothesis that linguistic patterning is related to the patterning of all purposeful behavior. Crucial to the theory is the structural concept of slot-plus-class (of filler), which together comprise the tagmeme, i.e., the structurally relevant unit of grammatical arrangement.

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