Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace

'compatible' with the case marking on the verbal argument. Warlpin has a split ergative
system sensitive to the person hierarchy. The case on first and second person clitic
pronouns follows a nominative/accusative (NOM-ACC) case system, while the case on
nominals is assigned under an ergativdabsolutive (ERG-ABS) system. The case which
appears on the arguments is cailed grammatical case (G-case). The G-cases are NOM
ACC and DAT. Nominals have primary or secondary lexical case (L-case). The prirnary
L-cases are ERG, ABS and DAT. The secondary Lsases are LOCATIVE. PERLATIVE,
ALLATIVE, ELATIVE, etc. Only the primary L-cases can be co-indexed to the clitic
arguments. Jelinek called these nominals adargumental adjuncts, since they give more
information about the referent of a clitic argument. Nominals with secondary L-case
cannot be co-indexed with a clitic pronoun, but must be licensed by a case particle phrase
or postposition. These nominals are called adsentential adjuncts.
Jelinek's linking mle follows in (15) and a chart of case-cornpatibility between G-
case (on arguments) and L-case (on nominals) is presented in (16):
( 1 5) Linking Rule (Jelinek, 1 984: 52)
A chic pronoun may be co-indexed with a nominal, providing the L-case of the
nominal and the G-case of the clitic pronoun are compntible (assigning a distinct
index to each clitic).
(1 6) Compatible Cases (Jelinek, 1984: 52)
a. NOM G-case is compatible with ABS and ERG L-case.
b. ACC G-case is compatible with ABS and DAT L-case.
c. DAT G-case is compatible with DAT L-case.