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Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
Language:
Cree (Plains)
Feature:
Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
by
Balthasar Bickel
and
Johanna Nichols
Value:
Isolating/concatenative
Examples
Sentence igt-606:
Sēkih-ē-w nāpēw atim-wa.
Sēkih-ē-w
scare- DIRECT -3
nāpēw
man.
prox
atim-wa.
dog- OBVIATIVE
The man scares the dog.
Sentence igt-607:
Sē kih-ik nāpēw-a atim.
Sē kih-ik
scare- INVERSE [-3]
nāpēw-a
man- OBVIATIVE
atim.
dog.
prox
The man scares the dog .
References
Dahlstrom 1991
Wolfart 1973
Russell 1999
Wolfart and Carroll 1981
cite
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