Choctaw Verb Agreement and Universal Grammar

ISBN-13: 9789027721426 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 202 str.

William D. Davies

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and 1982 and from various speakers in Oklahoma during two extended visits to Broken Bow in 1980. I lX PREFACE x wishtothankthespeakerswhohelpedmebysharingtheirlanguage andencouragingmystudies.MyworkonChoctawwassupportedin partbyfundsfrom theNationalScienceFoundation(throughgrant numberBNS78-17498totheUniversityofCalifornia, SanDiego), theAmericanPhilosophicalSociety(throughaPhillipsFundgrant), andtheDepartmentofLinguisticsatUCSD

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1: Introduction.- 1. Choctaw verb agreement.- 2. Other problems in Choctaw.- 3. Results of the study.- 2: Two Classes of Intransitive Predicates.- 1. Properties of Choctaw subjects.- 2. The two classes of intransitives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis.- 3. Final 1hood of unaccusative subjects.- 4. The role of the Unaccusative Hypothesis.- 5. Summary.- 3: Dative Beneficiaries and Dative Possessors.- 1. Dative beneficiaries.- 2. Dative possessors.- 3. Summary.- 4: The Double Accusative Construction.- 1. The structure of the subject.- 2. The Antipassive structure.- 3. The configuration of the initial 2.- 4. Possessor Ascension and the Antipassive structure.- 5. Conclusions.- 5: Dative Subjects.- 1. Characterization of the dative subject.- 2. Characterizing the object.- 3. The failure of an alternative analysis.- 4. Conclusion.- 6: Dative Direct Objects.- 1. The dative direct object.- 2. Accusative subject/dative direct object clauses.- 3. Inversion and 2–3 Retreat.- 4. Demotions in Universal Grammar.- 7: A Proposal for Verb Agreement.- 1. An account of Choctaw verb agreement.- 2. Disjunctive application of agreement rules.- 3. Summary.- Appendix: Switch-reference and disjunctive rule application.- 8: The Interaction of Agreement and Case.- 1. Transparency of agreement and case.- 2. Agreement as a lexical property.- 3. A proposal for agreement and case.- 4. Conclusion.- References.