Nominalization and voice in Kwak'wala

Kwak̓wala appears to give privileged status to the syntactic position of subject in the formation of several clause types that rely on extraction; that is to say, the subject is the only element which can be A'-extracted to form relative clauses, WH-questions, and cleft sentences. For this reas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherer, Laura
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50196