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Studies in Native American Languages 9.

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Kyle, John, Ed.; Khym, Hangyoo, Ed.; Kookiattikoon, Supath, Ed. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997

Four papers on Native American languages include these: "Reduplicated Numerals in Salish" (Gregory D. S. Anderson), which analyzes these patterns in Salish and compares them with other Salish languages; "Unitariness and Partial Identification in the Bella Coola Middle Voice" (David Beck), which argues for a single morpheme,…

Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns

Verb Agreement and the Structure of the Clause in Karaja.

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Maia, Marcus – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997

A study of verb agreement and clause structure in Karaja, a Brazilian indigenous language of Macro-Je stock, discusses the subject and object agreement systems with relation to the Feature Specification Constraint. Implementation of the SOV order in Karaja is then analyzed and evidence is presented for the existence of a single functional phrase…

Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Indigenous Populations