The three experiments in human sentence processing reported here were conducted in the
Algonquian language of Odawa. They represent the first psycholinguistic experiments to be …

The study reported here was conducted in the Algonquian language of Odawa (aka Ottawa),
with the goal of gaining new insight into the ways that conceptual accessibility affects human …

Languages of the Algonquian family are often referred to as having a relatively “free” word
order (Bloomfield 1957: 131; Dahlstrom 1991, 1995; Guile 2001; Valentine 2001: 920; …

1. Introduction. 1 Elsewhere I have argued that by fairly standard typological criteria, Yagua
is a verb-initial language (D. Payne 1986; 1990). This claim is not uncontroversial, but the …

Baker (1996) defines" polysynthetic" languages as requiring registration of argument
structure in the verbal morphology. The goal of this paper is to define the semantic features …

Description: ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines several grammatical features of
Potawatomi, a Central Algonquian language, whose syntactic distributions in traditional …

This dissertation examines several grammatical features of Potawatomi, a Central
Algonquian language, whose syntactic distributions in traditional narrative are different from …

This chapter discusses the contributions of Formosan languages to models of sentence
processing, which are based primarily on a small number of world languages among which …

Koyukon and other Athabaskan languages are often described as being SOV languages.
However, it is also well understood that Athabaskan languages sometimes allow deviations …

The two Athapaskan languages Navajo and Slave2 are similar to each other, and different
from English, in allowing sentences without overt NPs. Thus, besides (1a)(Navajo) and …