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THE OBVIATIVE IN FOX NARRATIVE DISCOURSE IVES GODDARD Smithsonian Institution In this paper I treat in a preliminary fashion some aspects of the use of the famous Algonquian obviative , as illustrated by Fox texts written some 70 years ...
THE OBVIATIVE IN FOX NARRATIVE DISCOURSE IVES GODDARD Smithsonian Institution In this paper I treat in a preliminary fashion some aspects of the use of the famous Algonquian obviative , as illustrated by Fox texts written some 70 years ...
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In the English transla- tions the animate third persons are marked [ P ] , for proximate , or [ O ] for obviative . In one case where two degrees of obviation are distinguished by the verbal inflection , the second obviative ( sometimes ...
In the English transla- tions the animate third persons are marked [ P ] , for proximate , or [ O ] for obviative . In one case where two degrees of obviation are distinguished by the verbal inflection , the second obviative ( sometimes ...
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In this sentence the first obviative refers back to a herd of buffalo mentioned in the preceding context , where it is obviative . The verb ' to kill ' is inflected for a proximate plural object and mor- phologically could have either ...
In this sentence the first obviative refers back to a herd of buffalo mentioned in the preceding context , where it is obviative . The verb ' to kill ' is inflected for a proximate plural object and mor- phologically could have either ...
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