Typological aspects of Lillooet transitive verb inflection

Abstract

"The object of this article is to provide an analysis of the basic features of the Lillooet (Salish) transitive verb, and to compare the manner in which Lillooet marks personal pronominal subjects and objects to the manner in which various other American Indian languages mark these categories. Thus, the first part of this article (§§2-6) will be devoted to a presentation of the Lillooet facts, and will include a discussion of Lillooet word-classes and the various types of Lillooet transitive verbs. Particular attention will be paid to the fact that Lillooet marks pronominal subjects and objects through a combination of case-marking and slot-assignment. The second part of this article (§§7-10) will compare the Lillooet strategy for subject and object marking with two other strategies that are employed by American Indian languages, viz., direct/inverse systems, and feature nesting"