West Greenlandic
Abstract West Greenlandic (WGr), of the Eskimo-Aleut family, has several non-matrix mood formations. The Contemporative and Participial encompass functions of infinitives, participles, and subjunctives in the IE languages. With infinitives, they share the property of a null subject controlled by ano...
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Oxford University PressOxford
2002
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198299608.003.0006 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52234596/isbn-9780198299608-book-part-6.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract West Greenlandic (WGr), of the Eskimo-Aleut family, has several non-matrix mood formations. The Contemporative and Participial encompass functions of infinitives, participles, and subjunctives in the IE languages. With infinitives, they share the property of a null subject controlled by another DP. As participles (DP modifiers), they exhibit the case and number features of that DP. As complements to verbs they are inflected for number and (in part) person agreement. Both formations can license PRO subjects with agreement features which can be mirrored in the Agr complex. |
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