Many conjunctions are formed from the auxiliary verbs ómäs, mómäs and
thus are in fact verbs, not particles. In spite of the frequent use to
which they are put they do not relieve the sentence of its heaviness
to any perceptible extent; for what we call incident clauses and also
many co-ordinate principal sentences are uniformly expressed by
groups of words, the verb of which stands in the -t or -n verbal,
which nearest corresponds to our participle in _-ing_, or to _having_
(h. gone, carried), sometimes five or six of them, followed at the
close by a finite verb. Instances of this our Creek text affords
almost on every page. This sort of incapsulation greatly embarrasses
interpreters in the rendering of Creek texts in any of the modern
European languages, which have a tendency towards analytic and an
aversion to synthetic structure of the sentence, and therefore use
conjunctions freely. A conjunction corresponding in every respect to
our _and_ exists in none of the Maskoki dialects.
The syntax is remarkably simple and uniform; the multiplicity of
grammatic forms precludes the formation of many syntactic rules, just
as in Sanscrit. The position of the words in the sentence is: subject,
object, verb. The adjective when used attributively stands after the
noun qualified.