A Semantically Based Sketch of Onondaga |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Inflection of a Verb | 15 |
Semantic Specification of a Noun | 24 |
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accent agent and patient agent noun agent prefix Alice animate patient aorist applied beneficiary noun Chapter cihá configuration contemporaneous dative deleted demonstrative descriptive iterative descriptive verb diagramed discussed dislocative dog is old dual or plural dual plural emphatic epenthetic example experiential fact following sentences further specified future house is old human masculine human noun illustrated imperative inchoative inclusive indefinite indicated inflectional units introduced Iroquoian languages iterative punctual labeled lengthening lexical unit lexically specified linearization liquid consonant locative Lounsbury masculine feminine meaning negative neuter agent neuter patient nonlexical units noun containing Onondaga optionally particle patient noun root patient prefix penultimate phonetic outputs Ponohsaka possible postsemantic prefix symbolized present pretonic vowels pronominalization punctual past reflected relation relative clause selectional units selectionally specified semantic structure semantic units sentence-final sentences contain suffix surface structure surface unit surface verb syllable tences tion tonic vowel transformations underlying unique animate verb root word