A Comparative Study of Reflexive Forms in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages
In this paper I will describe the reflexive forms found in three Athapaskan languages of northern Canada: Chipewyan, Dogrib, and Slave. Reflexive morphology in these languages has different properties depending on whether the reflexive form serves as the object of a verb or postposition, or as the p...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/32419 2023-05-15T15:54:14+02:00 A Comparative Study of Reflexive Forms in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages Saxon, Leslie 1985-06-24 application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/32419 eng eng Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/32419/1882527630 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/32419 Copyright (c) 2021 Leslie Saxon Linguistica Atlantica; Vol. 6/7 (1984/5); 28 - 45 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1985 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:56:43Z In this paper I will describe the reflexive forms found in three Athapaskan languages of northern Canada: Chipewyan, Dogrib, and Slave. Reflexive morphology in these languages has different properties depending on whether the reflexive form serves as the object of a verb or postposition, or as the possessor of a noun. My focus in this paper is on the reflexive possessive forms. I show that different properties of reflexive forms in a single language are mirrored by different properties among the three languages. Cross-linguistic evidence thus provides additional support for distinctions set up on the basis of facts particular to one language, in this case, distinctions between possessive and non-possessive uses of the reflexive form. Article in Journal/Newspaper Chipewyan Dogrib Northern Athapaskan University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Canada |
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In this paper I will describe the reflexive forms found in three Athapaskan languages of northern Canada: Chipewyan, Dogrib, and Slave. Reflexive morphology in these languages has different properties depending on whether the reflexive form serves as the object of a verb or postposition, or as the possessor of a noun. My focus in this paper is on the reflexive possessive forms. I show that different properties of reflexive forms in a single language are mirrored by different properties among the three languages. Cross-linguistic evidence thus provides additional support for distinctions set up on the basis of facts particular to one language, in this case, distinctions between possessive and non-possessive uses of the reflexive form. |
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A Comparative Study of Reflexive Forms in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages |
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A Comparative Study of Reflexive Forms in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages |
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A Comparative Study of Reflexive Forms in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages |
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A Comparative Study of Reflexive Forms in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages |
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A Comparative Study of Reflexive Forms in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages |
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comparative study of reflexive forms in three northern athapaskan languages |
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Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association |
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1985 |
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https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/32419 |
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Chipewyan Dogrib Northern Athapaskan |
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Chipewyan Dogrib Northern Athapaskan |
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Linguistica Atlantica; Vol. 6/7 (1984/5); 28 - 45 |
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