Obviation Across Clause Boundaries in Kutenai
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Kootenai language-- PersonAbstract
Kutenai has an obviation system reminiscent of the system found in Algonquian languages in which at most one third person nominal in a clause is proximate and others are obviative. Although the behaviour of proximate nominals within clauses and within texts reflects a special status for proximates, as having some sort of `higher rank' than obviatives, there are no restrictions across clause boundaries within sentences that require that the proximate be higher in the sentence than proximate nominals.Downloads
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Dryer, . M. S. (1997). Obviation Across Clause Boundaries in Kutenai. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 22, 33-52. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.334