Leman, Wayne E.

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From the introduction,  In Cheyenne, as in other Algonquian languages, when two or more third-person nominals are in the same sentence or  contextual span  (Wolfart 1973:17), one of the nominals must be treated as  nearer  or more  in focus  than the other third-person nominal(s). The nearer person is called the  proximate  form while any other(s) is said to be  obviate  (sometimes called a  fourth-person ). The proximate nominal can function as the  topic  of a discourse segment, or  the person earlier spoken of and already known  (Bloomfield 1962:38). The marking of one or more nominals as obviates is called  obviation 

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Remarks on Cheyenne obviation and pluralization

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Remarks on Cheyenne obviation and pluralization

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