Obviation Across Clause Boundaries in Kutenai [electronic resource] / Matthew S. Dryer.
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...
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| Summary: | 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 obviates, it is concluded that there is no evidence of any syntactic conditions governing obviation across clause boundaries apart from those that also apply within clauses, there can be no more than one proximate per sentence, and coreferential nominals must agree in obviation. In particular there is no evidence of any conditions reminiscent of "binding" conditions, or any conditions by which proximates are preferred in higher positions than obviates. (Contains 10 references.) (Author/MSE) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED419411. ERIC Note: For complete volume, see FL 025 251. |
| Physical Description: | 20 p. |