East Cree Relational Verbs

Bibliographic Data

ID4559722
AuthorsMarie-Odile Junker (Carleton University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume69
Issue3
Pages307-329
Publication date2003-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/381338
OpenAlexW1973239508
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

Bloomfield (1928) has described what he calls a relational construction in Cree, a construction he claims is restricted to this Algonquian language only. The construction presents various problems which are addressed in this paper: Do relational suffixes increase the valency of verbs? How are relational verbs different from applicative verbs? In which contexts are relational verbs used? The East Cree data show that relational verbs do not license overt NP arguments in the syntax, that they are obligatory in disjoint reference contexts involving possession, that they are used to indicate the presence of third‐person discourse participants, and that they have a close relationship with the grammar of obviation

Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Possession (linguistics · Syntax · Valency · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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