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... participant described by the verb predicate . In English , an agent - descriptive verb such as hit primarily describes what the agent is doing , but doesn't give any information about what happens to the patient , whereas a patient ...
... participant described by the verb predicate . In English , an agent - descriptive verb such as hit primarily describes what the agent is doing , but doesn't give any information about what happens to the patient , whereas a patient ...
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... participant which is inflected as direct object . Of these the largest is the semantically and morphologically unmarked class for patients , i.e. , participants directly affected by the action , as signalled by -Ø AF . These contrast ...
... participant which is inflected as direct object . Of these the largest is the semantically and morphologically unmarked class for patients , i.e. , participants directly affected by the action , as signalled by -Ø AF . These contrast ...
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... participant , the subject ) , may be seman- tically intransitive , wan - is / in ' he is lost ' , or semantically transi- tive , wan - ihc - ik / e - w ' he loses things ' . The latter have semantic verb classes similar to those for the ...
... participant , the subject ) , may be seman- tically intransitive , wan - is / in ' he is lost ' , or semantically transi- tive , wan - ihc - ik / e - w ' he loses things ' . The latter have semantic verb classes similar to those for the ...
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19th century Abenaki acculturated Albany and Attawapiskat Algonquian Conference American animals Attawapiskat bags bark Basil beads beadwork belt Big Trout Lake birch bark scrolls birchbark bird canoe ceremonial hide culture d'une decorated deux dialect dubitative early England English European example Fort Albany Fort George gélinotte George Gladys Gladys Tantaquidgeon gunwale Hudson's Bay Company hunting Indians Iroquois Island James Bay Jocko land language langue legend linguistic manitou Maniwaki medicine Micmac Mide Midewiwin missionary Mistassini Mohegan Montagnais Moose Factory motifs Museum myths Nanabozho Nantucket narrative Native nombre non-Indian North noun obviative Ojibwa Ontario oral history orthography Ottawa paper patterns Penobscot pigs prefix preverbs Québec Rasles records REFERENCES ribs River root Saulteaux scrolls semantic Sheshatshiu Shinnecock speakers Speck spruce Swampy Cree Tantaquidgeon tion Toronto trade traditional tribes University variant verb stem village vowel Wabanaki wampum Watkins William