Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace

Extraction facts provide evidence for a distinction between two kinds of clauses:
those 1 propose to analyse as A-doubling expressions, and those which 1 propose are
adverbial clauses (i.e., non-A-doubling). For NPs, only those noun phrases which are coindexed
to a pronominal argument in the verbal cornplex, i.e., A-doubling NPs, cm have a
part of the NP extracted and fionted. Oblique NPs cannot have a part of the NP
extracted. Example (60a) provides a Swampy Cree sentence with a deteminer within the
NP. (60b) shows a variation of the sentence where the determiner has been extracted out
of the A-doubling NP and moved into a focus position."
(60) a. pâhpiwak nêwo awâsisak.
laugh. AI-3p four child-3 p
'The four children are laughing.'
b. nêwo pâhpiwak awâsisak.
four 1augh.N-3p child-3p
'The four children are laughing,'
A textual example in given in (61). Again we see a determiner, niw 'two'. being
extracted fiom the A-doubling NP niso m6swah 'two moose (obv)' and placed in focus
position.
(6 1 ) niso nipahêw môswah êh-whoyit;
two kill.TA-(3-3') moose -3' cj-be.fat. AI-3'
'He killed two fat moose.'
When an NP consists of a deteminer and a noun, only the determiner cm be extracted. The noun cannot
be fmnteâ. mnding the determiner. A DP analysis, where the NP is actually a DP, wiîh a Det hcad and
a complement NP altows for determiner extraction. For more information on DP structure in Cree, see
Reinholtz (1995). which e-xplains split DPs (discontinuous wnstituents) as a result of extraction, as well
as Mathemon & Reinholtz (1996).