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Page 103
... thematic vs. background . Roughly stated thematic material is that which moves the story forward , or moves the logic of an exposition ahead . Background material is that which enables one to interpret the thematic material or to put ...
... thematic vs. background . Roughly stated thematic material is that which moves the story forward , or moves the logic of an exposition ahead . Background material is that which enables one to interpret the thematic material or to put ...
Page 104
... thematic verbs , but not on background verbs . So for example consider the following excerpt from BL 10 : ( 1 ) Bloomfield 10 ( excerpt ) ( a ) Ggizheb dash ngii - naadin nbiish . 9 In the morning I went for water . " ( b ) Maa dash ...
... thematic verbs , but not on background verbs . So for example consider the following excerpt from BL 10 : ( 1 ) Bloomfield 10 ( excerpt ) ( a ) Ggizheb dash ngii - naadin nbiish . 9 In the morning I went for water . " ( b ) Maa dash ...
Page 106
... thematic and past tense is used on thematic verbs to mark them as prominent . Again in this style quote formulae are treated differently . They are independent ( unless modified by mii ) and are almost always untensed . In summary our ...
... thematic and past tense is used on thematic verbs to mark them as prominent . Again in this style quote formulae are treated differently . They are independent ( unless modified by mii ) and are almost always untensed . In summary our ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MEANINGS | 16 |
H Christoph Wolfart University of Manitoba | 37 |
Copyright | |
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aawa Abnaki affix Albemarle area Algonquian languages American Androscoggin Androscoggin River animate appears auas Bloomfield Brunswick Museum century Champlain Society Chesapeake area Chickahominy river Chimo colonial Comp consonant Cree culture curriculum Davis Inlet dialects Dibblee dictionary England English Etchemin être European examples Fort Chimo French Golden Lake grammatical History Hudson Bay ibid independent Index inventories James John Kennebec River Kyrie l'enfant Latin linguistic Malecite Maliseet Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Massachusetts materials medicines Micmac Mii dash missionaries Montagnais Namieu Narragansett narrative Naskapi Newfoundland noko'siksi noms noun phrase obviative Ojibwa Ottawa paper Passamaquoddy Penobscot Plantation Indians plural probate records pronoun Proto-Algonquian Quebec refer relations relative clauses Roanoke area Ruperts House Saint Francis Saint John River Schefferville sentence shaman social speakers stories structure suffixes tense term thematic third person Thomas Toronto traditional tribe tshe University village vowel Wabanaki witches Woodstock word y-dialects Youghtanund Youghtanund river