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... yielding an animate intransitive verb. These verbalized stems clearly involve
head-movement of N" to a higher V" position, and are distinct from nominal
predicate constructions. The differences follow automatically ifthe predicate-initial
order ...
... yielding an animate intransitive verb. These verbalized stems clearly involve
head-movement of N" to a higher V" position, and are distinct from nominal
predicate constructions. The differences follow automatically ifthe predicate-initial
order ...
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Fourth, the highly marked status ofsubject-initial orders is argued to follow from
focus-sensitive movement. Finally, I review the environments which host non-
verbal predication, and show that they exhaust the logical possibilities. [X Det] is
...
Fourth, the highly marked status ofsubject-initial orders is argued to follow from
focus-sensitive movement. Finally, I review the environments which host non-
verbal predication, and show that they exhaust the logical possibilities. [X Det] is
...
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... a. u-saakaaikin-im-uwaaw "their lake' b. u-saakaaikin-im-uwaa-hch 'on their
lake' Animate nominalizations follow a similar pattern, but only a few examples
were found that can take a locative suffix. Ifthe nominalization ends in a long
vowel ...
... a. u-saakaaikin-im-uwaaw "their lake' b. u-saakaaikin-im-uwaa-hch 'on their
lake' Animate nominalizations follow a similar pattern, but only a few examples
were found that can take a locative suffix. Ifthe nominalization ends in a long
vowel ...
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SYLVIE BERBAUM | 14 |
LAURA BUSZARDWELCHER | 34 |
MARY ANN CORBIERE | 71 |
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