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Normally , the proximate participant is the highest third person participant on the hierarchy Subject > Primary Object > { Secondary Object , Oblique } . The inverse construction is the only way in which this hierarchy can be violated ...
Normally , the proximate participant is the highest third person participant on the hierarchy Subject > Primary Object > { Secondary Object , Oblique } . The inverse construction is the only way in which this hierarchy can be violated ...
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Namely , a proximate participant cannot be less animate than an obviative participant . Example ( 29 ) is odd because it treats the dog as equal to a human . ( 29 ) ?? xa ? tein dog n - it'x - ni pałkiy - s . INDIC - bite - INDIC woman ...
Namely , a proximate participant cannot be less animate than an obviative participant . Example ( 29 ) is odd because it treats the dog as equal to a human . ( 29 ) ?? xa ? tein dog n - it'x - ni pałkiy - s . INDIC - bite - INDIC woman ...
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One situation is clauses in which one of the participants is a possessor . As mentioned above , the possessed noun in such cases must be obviative . But if there is another participant in the clause , there is a choice as to whether ...
One situation is clauses in which one of the participants is a possessor . As mentioned above , the possessed noun in such cases must be obviative . But if there is another participant in the clause , there is a choice as to whether ...
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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