This paper examines and documents the various types of jussive constructions occurring in
Ojibwe, an endangered Algonquian language of North America. A jussive is a type of …

Drawing on textual materials from several dialects of Ojibwe, this article describes an array
of morphological and syntactic constructions used to express identity, equation, existence …

Changed conjunct verbs in the Algonquian literature are conjunct verbs (sometimes referred
to as plain conjuncts) which exhibit initial change (Valentine 2001: 158, 1014). Initial change …

This paper describes a resultative construction in Q'anjob'al that has not been previously
described in Mayan. It occurs in languages of the Q'anjob'al group and Chuj. This …

Abstract Jicarilla Apache is a Southern Athabaskan language with a complex
verbalstructure, including a prefix template with positions for more than ten affixes. Little has …

This paper examines one specific syntactic construction in Q'eqchi'(Mayan, K'ichean group).
This construction involves a bare intransitive verb stem (with the suffix-k/-Vk that is optional …

This paper examines the different semantic and syntactic effects of the" applicative" in
Hualapai, an Upland Yuman language, showing that constructions derivedfrom active verb …

Hualapai, an Upland Yuman language, has a set of four auxiliary verbs, each of which is
generally considered to be correlated with the semantic categories of the main verb. The …

Wari', the last viable language of the Chapakuran family of Brazil and Bolivia, manifests a
typologically and theoretically interesting construction for expressing intentional states. I …

• It is typically assumed that verb meanings consist of an “event structure” constraining the
events described by the verb, consisting of (a) a template built from basic eventdenoting …