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Volume 1, Issue 3 (2007) Pp. 1–92.
- The SENĆOŦEN Resultive Construction
- by Claire K. Turner, University of Victoria
The resultive and actual (imperfective) aspects in
SENĆOŦEN (Saanich), a dialect of North Straits Salish,
have been previously considered to contain two separate actual and
resultive morphemes (Montler 1986). In contrast, it is argued here
that the SENĆOŦEN resultive construction is a complex
construction, built on an actual base by prefixation of stative
[s]. Both morphophonological evidence and morphosyntactic evidence for
this claim are considered: resultives and actuals exhibit the same
non-concatenative allomorphy, and they appear to be in complementary
distribution with respect to argument structure. This paper also
considers the semantic aspectual properties of resultives, and
suggests that the morphologically complex resultive is semantically
compositional: it contains a [durative] feature contributed by the
actual morpheme and a [static] feature contributed by the stative
prefix.
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