A Relational Grammar approach to verb agreement in Lakota

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Plunkett, Gray C. and Michael McKeever
Issue Date: 
1986
Is Part Of Series: 
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 30
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pages 89-105
Abstract: 
From the introduction: "This paper examines verb agreement rules and their application in Lakota, a Siouan language. In particular, it explores how to best account for verb agreement in Lakota in a Relational Grammar framework. We will argue that certain concepts of Relational Grammar (RG), especially the notions of level and working 2, provide the necessary theoretical apparatus for formulating concise rules of verb agreement in Lakota. These rules account for all major transitive, ditransitive, and intransitive clause types. It also lends support to Perlmutter's claim that the notion of working term-x is needed to state rules in the grammars of natural language (Perlmutter1982). We will also show the importance of disjunctive ordering in the grammars of natural languages."
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Published
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United States
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Entry Number: 
40208