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... third person . The fact that only third persons partake in the obviation system of Kutenai is also reflected in the possessive construction . While , as shown above , nouns possessed by third persons are syntactically obviative in Kute ...
... third person . The fact that only third persons partake in the obviation system of Kutenai is also reflected in the possessive construction . While , as shown above , nouns possessed by third persons are syntactically obviative in Kute ...
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... persons compete with third persons for proximate status . But the examples in the preceding section show that this is not so . Clauses with a first person subject acting on a proximate third person object do not bear the obviative ...
... persons compete with third persons for proximate status . But the examples in the preceding section show that this is not so . Clauses with a first person subject acting on a proximate third person object do not bear the obviative ...
Page 138
... person , and the subject of the main clause is third person , the complement verb is apparently invariably marked with -mit . These cases are not covered by the generalizations covering ( 46 ) to ( 48 ) , which describe -mit in terms of ...
... person , and the subject of the main clause is third person , the complement verb is apparently invariably marked with -mit . These cases are not covered by the generalizations covering ( 46 ) to ( 48 ) , which describe -mit in terms of ...
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Abenaki Algonquian languages American animacy animals Anne's band Baraga Canada Canadian Carleton University Chart Cherokee chief clan Court culture Curwood Delaware dialects discourse elders evidence example fortis consonants fur trade Hudson's Bay Company hunting inanimate Indian Land indicates inflectional inverse involved Kansas Kutenai and Algonquian Land Claims leg hold traps Linguistics merchandise Micmac Montagnais Moose Moose Factory morphemes morphological Munsee Nation Native students Nichols non-Native notional subject obviation system obviative obviative subject occur Ojibwa Ontario oral paper participant pictographic Plains Cree possessed noun previous proximate prosodic prox proximate shift records reduplication reference River Roy's account book s/he Shingwokaunce similar social society stem Stockbridge-Munsee story suffix suggests syllable Teme-augama template third person Toronto trading captains trading posts traditional transitivized trappers treaty tribe University verb forms Vermillion Lake Vincent Roy vowel Waller Wallis Weenusk White Winisk Wolf word