Enclitic Particles in Western Abenaki: Form and Function

Autor: Philip S. LeSourd
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: International Journal of American Linguistics. 81:301-335
ISSN: 1545-7001
0020-7071
DOI: 10.1086/681577
Popis: Western Abenaki, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken until recently at Odanak (St. Francis), Quebec, makes extensive use of a set of enclitic particles that are typically placed in second position in a clause. This article presents an analysis of the formal properties of these particles, describes their meanings and their discourse functions, and provides a brief account of their syntactic distribution. The phonological properties of the clitics and their hosts are identified, with particular attention to the realization of word-final h, which surfaces only before enclitics in a restricted set of particles and suffixes. The data for this study come primarily from nineteenth-century texts, but attention is also given to phonological developments in the treatment of clitics and their hosts that took place in the twentieth century.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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