Deriving full repetition in Blackfoot with additive focus  

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Louie, Meagan

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Vancouver, British Colombia, April 29 - May 1, 2010, page 1-18.
Topik: ENGLISH LANGUAGE - TRANFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR; semantics; pragmatics; repetition; focus; Blackfoot
Fulltext: 1-18.pdf (188.02KB)

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I argue that Blackfoot’s method of marking repetition, mattsista’- consists of two morphemes, matt- and ista’-. While both encode an additional event, matt-’s event is restricted only to being a focus alternative to the asserted event, leaving predicate identity and temporal precedence to be encoded by ista’-. I propose that ista’-’s event variable requires a linguistically encoded antecedent which matt-’s event acts as, deriving the fact that mattsista’- has a focus-sensitive interpretation.

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