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Inversion, Obviation, and Animacy in Native Languages of the Americas: Elements for a Cross-linguistic Survey
- Anthropological Linguistics
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 56, Numbers 3-4, Fall and Winter 2014
- pp. 334-355
- 10.1353/anl.2014.0016
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Native languages of the Americas whose predicate and clause structure reflect nominal hierarchies show an interesting range of structural diversity not only with respect to morphological makeup of their predicates and arguments but also with respect to the factors governing obviation status. The present article maps part of such diversity. The sample surveyed here includes languages with some sort of nonlocal (third person acting on third person) direction-marking system.