Hixkaryana: The Syntax of Object Verb Subject Word Order
In this paper I propose and motivate a syntactic analysis of Hixkaryana (a Carib language spoken in the Amazon in Brazil), drawing on the extensive, linguistically-informed fieldwork of Desmond C. Derbyshire (1979, 1985, inter alia). Hixkaryana displays basic/unmarked Object Verb Subject (OVS) word...
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University of Arizona Linguistics Circle
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/253418 |