Categorial shift: foundations, extensions, and consequences

The Role of Documentary Linguistics in the Creation of Academic Resources and Materials for Second Language Learners: Conversations with Kanien’kéha Students and Teachers

“…Aspect/ Tense suffixes Figure 2. Verb structure in Kanien'kéha (Mithun, 2018) Figure 2 does not fully illustrate how complex Kanien'kéha verb structure is.…”

“…Gender (or possessive) prefix Noun stem Noun suffix Figure 1. Noun structure of Kanien'kéha (Mithun, 2018).…”

“…For example, within the prenominal prefix slot, there are many possibilities: "Partitive (PRT), Coincident (COIN), Contrastive (CONTR), Negative (NEG); Translocative (TLOC); Factual (FACT); Duplicative (DV); Future (FUT), Irrealis (IRR); and Cislocative (CLOC), Repetitive (REP)" (Mithun, 2018, 3). There are 50-60 pronominal prefixes in each of the three sets of paradigms (grammatical agents, grammatical patients, and fused transitive combinations) occurring in Iroquoian languages (Mithun, 2018). These are used to distinguish person, clusivity, gender, and number (Mithun, 2018).…”

“…There are 50-60 pronominal prefixes in each of the three sets of paradigms (grammatical agents, grammatical patients, and fused transitive combinations) occurring in Iroquoian languages (Mithun, 2018). These are used to distinguish person, clusivity, gender, and number (Mithun, 2018). In addition to structural complexity, morphological verbs can often serve as predicates, nominals and adverbials and complete grammatical sentences in themselves (Mithun, 2018).…”

“…These are used to distinguish person, clusivity, gender, and number (Mithun, 2018). In addition to structural complexity, morphological verbs can often serve as predicates, nominals and adverbials and complete grammatical sentences in themselves (Mithun, 2018).…”