A Special Word in Jamul Diegueno

The word naynaa which occurs in the Jamul dialect of Diegueno has four functions: it is used as an emphatic, as an emphatic marker of coreference between a possessor and the subject of its clause, in the reflexive construction, and as an emphatic same subject marking device in complex sentences. Thi...

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Main Author: Miller, Amy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1989-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/580