Diagnosing Predicate Fronting in Samoan
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∗ James N. Collins, Stanford University, [email protected]. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Emily Sataua and Joey Zodiakal for their time as consultants. Data from these two consultants for this project was collected in 2013. Both consultants self-identify as speakers of American Samoa Samoan. Thanks also to Vince Schwenke-Enoka and Rev. Iakopo Leleimalefaga for additional judgements. Thanks to Vera Gribanova, Beth Levin, Christopher Potts, Rajesh Bhatt, and the audiences at WCCFL 32 at USC (2014) and the annual meeting of the LSA (2014) for comments on this work. 1 Abbreviations: ACC accusative, CAUS causative, DAT dative, DAT.PRO dative pronoun, DIR directional particle, DU dual, ERG ergative, ITER iterative, LOC locative, NOM nominative, PERF perfect aspect, PRES present, PL plural, SG singular
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