The Lakhota Definite Articles and Topic Marking
This paper presents evidence that the definite articles k?u and ki in Lakhota are more adequately described as topic discontinuity and default markers, respectively. Using Givon's referential distance measure (1983), I show that ki is the default article, used when topic/participant continuity...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1999-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/356 |