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- ItemOpen AccessClassifiers and subject prefix alternation in Athapaskan(University of Calgary, 1979-05) Henry, DaveThe basic sentence structure in Athapaskan is subject-object-verb, as illustrated in Hare. The verb is inflected for aspect and subject agreement. If the object of a transitive verb is not stated as an independent NP and the subject is third person, the verb is also inflected for object agreement. Because the subject is third person the object is expressed by the 'obviative' or 'fourth person.
- ItemOpen AccessWord shortening in Snowdrift Chipewyan(University of Calgary, 1980-05) Henry, DaveIn my fieldwork on Chipewyan in Snowdrift, N.W.T. in 1979 it became immediately apparent that variations between speakers were often extensive and that, in particular, younger speakers (roughly, under 30 years old) consistently differed from older speakers and that the variation was greatest between the youngest and the oldest speakers.