Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace
Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace
Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace
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complement-like <strong>in</strong>terpretation. The relationship between these clauses will be expla<strong>in</strong>ed<br />
<strong>in</strong> greater detail <strong>in</strong> chapter 5.<br />
A nonsxhaustive list of transitive verb stems which can <strong>in</strong>troduce argumentdoubl<strong>in</strong>g<br />
clauses is found <strong>in</strong> (39).<br />
(39) Pla<strong>in</strong>s <strong>Cree</strong><br />
- TI<br />
itêyihtkaskê<br />
yi htkiskêyihtmimaskitmihtâtmiskmiywêyi<br />
htpawâtpêhtwâpaht-<br />
- TA<br />
kakwècimkiskêyimwâpamwîhtamaw-<br />
'to th<strong>in</strong>k someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to be sad about someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to know someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to f<strong>in</strong>d someth<strong>in</strong>g strange'<br />
'to be sorry (about someth<strong>in</strong>g), to regret someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to f<strong>in</strong>d someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to be glad about someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to drearn about someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to hear someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
'to see someth<strong>in</strong>g'<br />
?O ask soxneone'<br />
'to know someone'<br />
'to see someone'<br />
'to tell someone about it/him'<br />
These verbs which may occur with A-doubl<strong>in</strong>g clauses have semantic properties <strong>in</strong><br />
common. They may al1 be ciassified as some sort of 'mentai action. ' This type of verb<br />
characterîstically occurs with complement clauses <strong>in</strong> other ianguages. At this po<strong>in</strong>t,<br />
however, I must leave the semantic properties aside, <strong>and</strong> am concentrat<strong>in</strong>g on the syntactic<br />
(argument) properties of this set of transitive verbs.