Verbal Morphology of the Southern Unami Dialect of Lenape
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2012
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Abstract
Because of a complex system of participant-verb agreement, the Lenape verb has a
fascinating role in the structure of a sentence. Not only does the verb contain enough
information about the nominal elements in the sentence to make a separate pronoun for
the subject and object unnecessary, but it identifies what grammatical role each nominal
element will play. It goes about this in a somewhat round-about way, assigning each
participant to a morphological category, which itself does not indicate the grammatical
role, but is assigned the grammatical role by a separate morpheme called a theme sign. In
this thesis, I undertake to make the fascinating basics of Lenape verbal morphology,
primarily as described by Goddard in his dissertation Delaware Verbal Morphology: A
Descriptive and Comparative Study, more readily accessible.