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Dryer, Matthew S. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997
Kutenai has an obviation system reminiscent of the systems found in Algonquian languages, in which at most one third person nominal in a clause is proximate and others are obviate. Although the behavior of proximate nominals within clauses and within texts reflects a special status for proximates as having some sort of "higher rank" than…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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
Beck, David – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997
The Bella Coola suffix "-m" has been analyzed in the literature as two or even three separate morphemes, based on the variable effects it has on the transitivity of its base. The segment is argued for here as a single morpheme with a unified meaning, specifically as a marker of a special case of one definition of the middle voice,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Research
Anderson, Gregory D. S. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997
A salient characteristic of the morpho-lexical systems of the Salish languages is the widespread use of reduplication in both derivational and inflectional functions. Salish reduplication signals such typologically common categories as "distributive/plural,""repetitive/continuative," and "diminutive," the cross-linguistically marked but typically…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research
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