Arizona: The Art Of Voice: Understanding The Arizona Tewa Inverse In Its Grammatical, ...

Arizona: The Art Of Voice: Understanding The Arizona Tewa Inverse In Its Grammatical, Narrative, And Language-Ideological Contexts Paul V. Kroskrity, 2010   This study examines aspects of a morphological inverse construction in Arizona Tewa, a Kiowa-Tanoan language. This inverse is optional for configurations involving third person agents and patients and obligatory when the patient is a speech act participant. It is partially passivelike in that it makes patients subject-topics and demotes...

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