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... nouns in Plains Cree . Namely , verbs in Kutenai with obviative subjects always bear a suffix - ( i ) s ( identical to the suffix used on nouns to indicate their obviative status ) . When a noun possessed by a third person functions as ...
... nouns in Plains Cree . Namely , verbs in Kutenai with obviative subjects always bear a suffix - ( i ) s ( identical to the suffix used on nouns to indicate their obviative status ) . When a noun possessed by a third person functions as ...
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... noun is not marked obviative ) is that the possessors are obviative in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , while they were proximate in ( 15 ) and ( 16 ) . The presence versus absence of obviative marking on a possessed noun in Kutenai depends on the ...
... noun is not marked obviative ) is that the possessors are obviative in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , while they were proximate in ( 15 ) and ( 16 ) . The presence versus absence of obviative marking on a possessed noun in Kutenai depends on the ...
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... noun that is obviative syntactically though not morphologically . Note that the presence of the obviative subject suffix on the verb in ( 52 ) makes it clear that the subject is Chickadee and not Wolf . Conversely , the absence of ...
... noun that is obviative syntactically though not morphologically . Note that the presence of the obviative subject suffix on the verb in ( 52 ) makes it clear that the subject is Chickadee and not Wolf . Conversely , the absence of ...
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