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| Title: | PROTO-ALGIC III: Pronouns |
| Authors: | Proulx, Paul |
| Issue Date: | 1991 |
| Publisher: | University of Kansas. Lingusitics Graduate Student Association |
| Extent: | 6441650 bytes |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| Series/Report no.: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics; |
| Abstract: | The Proto-Algic demonstrative roots
*y-) and locatives (*m-, *n-) had 3 inflectional endings, referring to spacial or temporal distributions of entities, and which evolve into the gender systems of Yurok and Algonquian. It had two discourse pronouns: *k- 'previously mentioned', and *t- 'known but not previously mentioned'. *k- is semantically associated with past time; *t- develops into Algonquian future markers. The Algonquian verbs of 'being (somewhere)' also all come from among these deictics. Proto-Algic also had a relative pronoun (*?-), instrumental in the development of some types of changed conjunct, and an associative deictic (*er- ‘like another'), which produces a marker of obviation. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/429 |
| ISSN: | 1043-3805 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume 16 (1991), KWPL
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