Предварительный аналитический обзор вербальной системы шайенов

This is certainly far from being the final word on the description of the Cheyenne verb. It is merely the small contribution of a self-taught author to the growing corpus of materials on the Cheyenne grammar in general. Many descriptions do exist that emphasize the syntactic aspect, but little has been written about the purely morphological aspect of the verbal structure in its overall functioning, that is about the way in which highly complex verbal forms should first be analyzed into their constituent morphemes and could then be correctly constructed accordingly. The best of my knowledge, only some occasional short publications and articles on partial topics can be found.Despite the great passion that has driven me over several years to complete this work, I am aware of the many errors and inaccuracies it contains, given my self-taught skill. However, my great passion for language study in general and my “love” for Cheyenne in particular have driven me to improve my work as much as possible also thanks to the numerous comparisons with other Amerindian and non-Amerindian languages I have studied. Ultimately, I simply thought it was right to make my contribution, however small, to the learning and revitalization of this highly polysynthetic, extremely complex (yet regular in its complexity) language. A “spectacular” language, I like to call it. I hope that potential readers will excuse me for any errors they may find. Criticism and suggestions are, of course, welcome.