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Grammaire de la langue des Cris.
Montreal: C.-O. Beauchemin & Valois, 1874
Physical Description: [2], iii, [1], 190 p., [1] folded leaf ; 23 cm.
Call number: E874/ L142d
Accession number: 35341
Notes: Part 1: “Classification des mots ou parties du discours”, with paradigms incorporating numerous vocabulary lists (p. [1]-136]); part 2: syntax (p. [137]-164), with chapters on nouns (including months of the year, p. 142), adjectives (including numbers 1-1 billion, p. 147-148), and verbs; part 3: adverbs grouped thematically, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, ending with conversational or idiomatic expressions (p. [165]-185). Includes table of contents (p. [187]-190). Folded table of 8 verb conjugations and other paradigms tipped in between p. 136 and 137.
JCB copy bound as second item of 2 with author’s “Dictionnaire de la langue de Cris”, Montreal, 1874.
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Languages: Cree
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: North America
