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However , clauses that lack an overt evidential of this sort may also have an evidential force . There are two possible interpretations that a clause without an overt evidential may have . First , the clause may have a default ...
However , clauses that lack an overt evidential of this sort may also have an evidential force . There are two possible interpretations that a clause without an overt evidential may have . First , the clause may have a default ...
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Obviation and ' evidential spans ' There are short spans in developed Plains Cree discourse where evidential forms like êsa ' reportedly ' are marked on nearly every clause . For exam- ple , in a short story related by Alice Ahenakew ...
Obviation and ' evidential spans ' There are short spans in developed Plains Cree discourse where evidential forms like êsa ' reportedly ' are marked on nearly every clause . For exam- ple , in a short story related by Alice Ahenakew ...
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Thus , the strictly evidential treatment of obviation makes another incorrect prediction . If obviation were simply a kind of indirect evidential marking , its correlation to clause - level evidentiality should be straightforward ...
Thus , the strictly evidential treatment of obviation makes another incorrect prediction . If obviation were simply a kind of indirect evidential marking , its correlation to clause - level evidentiality should be straightforward ...
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Heather Bliss | 11 |
Julie Brittain Carrie Dyck Yvan Rose Marguerite MacKenzie | 29 |
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Abenaki agreement Algonquian American animate appears Carleton University clause consonants context contrast Cree dialect direct discussion ê-conjunct Eastern endings English êsa event evidence evidential example fact final forms functions future given gives Goddard grammatical independent indicative Indian indicative inflection intention inverse Island John knowledge Kutenai land languages Linguistics Loup marked Massachusett meaning mode months n-suffixes names Narragansett negative noun object obviation obviative Ojibwe pattern Pentland person phonemic Plains Cree plural presented Press preverbs proximate reconstruction referent relation Salish sentence shared shows similar SNEA speaker speaking speech stem stories structure suffix thematic theme third person tion told types University utterances verb vowel Western Winnipeg Wolfart word-final