Christine M. Pittman

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Pittman, Christine M. 2009 Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine and Nicole Tersis (eds.), pp. 135–147 | Chapter
This paper analyzes North Baffin Inuktitut affixal verbs as restructuring verbs. According to Wurmbrand (2001), restructuring verbs select complements of differing sizes. The sizes result in different behaviors. I show that there are three types of restructuring verbs in Inuktitut: (1) functional… read more